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RESOURCES

On this page you can find useful information about red tide from various resources.

Federal

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    • Red Tide
      Provides red tide facts, data, publications, and links, as well as information about CDC’s red-tide-related activities ...more
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    • Gulf Ecology Division Site [external link]
      Provides information about EPA’s research into methods for detecting brevetoxin, the toxin associated with red tide ...more
    • Neurotoxicology Division Site [external link]
      Provides information about the health effects of toxins associated with Ciguatera and red tide ...more
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
    • Bad Bug Book, Various Shellfish Toxins [external link]
      Provides information about toxins, including those associated with red tide, that cause shellfish poisoning in humans (part of FDA’s Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook) ...more
  • U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
    • Red Tide Study site [external link]
      Provides the findings of a red tide study that USGS conducted during the late 1990s ...more
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Non-profit Organizations

  • Mote Marine Laboratory
    • Red Tide Update site [external link]
      Describes the laboratory’s red-tide monitoring and research activities, which include studies in collaboration with CDC, the Florida Department of Health, the University of Miami, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science ...more
  • Solutions to Avoid Red Tide (START) site [external link]
    START is a non-profit organization that funds and promotes efforts to prevent, control, and mitigate red tide ...more
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States

  • Texas Parks and Wildlife
  • Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI)
    • HAB site [external link]
      Defines red tide and describes red-tide-related health effects, and provides information about FMRI’s monitoring project and research into the algae associated with red tide ...more
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Universities

  • Ege University, Turkey
    • Microplankton Species of Turkish Seas site [external link]
      Provides information about microplankton species, including species associated with red tide, in the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, and the Sea of Marmara ...more
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