Sponsored by Oregon Lake Association,
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality,
and Oregon State University
2025 Oregon Harmful Algal Bloom Meeting
Monday, April 7, 2025 9:00 am -12:45 pm
Memorial Union Room 213
Oregon State University, Corvallis
and live-stream via Zoom
| Participants (in-person and live-stream) |
$10.00 |
| Speakers |
free |
| Students |
free |
PROGRAM
2024 Season recap and outlook for 2025
9:00 Introduction/Welcome, Theo Dreher, Oregon State University & OLA Past President
Oregon Health Authority HAB programs
9:10 Gregg Baird, OHA: CyanoHABs and drinking water
9:25 Linda Novitski and Stuart Dyer, OHA: CyanoHABs and recreational advisories
9:40 Discussion/Questions
9:55 Break
Oregon DEQ and EPA R10 HAB programs
10:00 Nathan Reetz, DEQ: DEQ Laboratory CyanoHABs Monitoring
10:15 Dan Sobota and Yuan Grund DEQ: DEQ CyanoHABs assessment and analysis projects
10:30 Rochelle Labiosa, US‐EPA Region 10 (AK, ID, OR, WA) Seattle office: Region 10 CyanoHABs
10:45 Discussion/Questions
10:55 Break
Regional HABs programs, projects, and research
11:00 Rochelle Labiosa, US‐EPA Region 10 (AK, ID, OR, WA) Seattle office: Benthic CyanoHABs on the Columbia River
11:20 Elijah Welch, City of Salem: City of Salem’s HAB program
11:40 Renato Figueirado, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, OSU: Lowering barriers to cloud computing for water quality and HAB forecasting
11:50 Break
12:00 Open forum for discussion of HABs monitoring and management around Oregon
12:30-45 Adjourn