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Primary dataset · CC0

Provisional Harmful Algal Bloom research data

United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modelling, Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division. Repository name: USEPA / provisional_habs. Current explorer coverage: 2026 provisional CSV. Earlier repository files exist for 2022, 2024 and 2025 and are not included in this explorer.

The repository README describes Lake Archer, Wrentham, Massachusetts, and Mashapaug Pond, Providence, Rhode Island. The actual 2026 CSV instead contains cunliff, mashapaug and rwp zoo. This hub preserves those source identifiers and does not assume the README describes every current row. Collection methods include buoys, FLAMe flow-through monitoring and laboratory analyses. Data are provisional and may be revised.

Additional measured dataset

NOAA / Scripps atmospheric CO₂

Mauna Loa monthly means and seasonally adjusted values, in ppm. Attribution: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory and Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Xin Lan and Ralph Keeling. Historical background: Keeling and colleagues (1976); Thoning, Tans and Komhyr (1989).

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Measurement interpretation references

USGS Water Science School: Temperature and Water; Turbidity and Water; pH and Water. USGS National Field Manual, Chapter A6: Field Measurements. EPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys: Indicators: Dissolved Oxygen (updated February 24, 2026). EPA: Small Systems with a Big Problem: Harmful Algal Blooms.

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Topic references

Water systems

Harmful algal blooms

US EPA, What Are the Effects of HABs; NOAA, Are all algal blooms harmful?

Used for educational context; not evidence of a current local event. Reference reviewed October 2026. Publication date is not asserted where not confirmed.

Watersheds

Nutrient pollution

US EPA, Basic Information on Nutrient Pollution; Nutrients parameter factsheet, July 2021.

Used for educational context; not evidence of a current local event. Reference reviewed October 2026. Publication date is not asserted where not confirmed.

Aquatic life

Oxygen depletion

US EPA, The Effects: Environment; Water Quality Impacts of Nutrients Research.

Used for educational context; not evidence of a current local event. Reference reviewed October 2026. Publication date is not asserted where not confirmed.

Climate connections

Warming water

US EPA, Climate Change and Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms.

Used for educational context; not evidence of a current local event. Reference reviewed October 2026. Publication date is not asserted where not confirmed.

Ecosystem connections

Biodiversity stress

US EPA, What Are the Effects of HABs; NOAA, What are the impacts of harmful algal blooms?

Used for educational context; not evidence of a current local event. Reference reviewed October 2026. Publication date is not asserted where not confirmed.

Beyond the lake

Air pollution

US EPA, Health and Environmental Effects of Hazardous Air Pollutants.

Used for educational context; not evidence of a current local event. Reference reviewed October 2026. Publication date is not asserted where not confirmed.

Beyond the lake

Land and soil contamination

US EPA, Report on the Environment: Human Exposure and Health.

Used for educational context; not evidence of a current local event. Reference reviewed October 2026. Publication date is not asserted where not confirmed.