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2026 Oregon Harmful Algal Bloom Meeting

  • Monday, April 06, 2026
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Oregon State University: Memorial Union Room 213 and Live-Stream via Zoom
  • 138

Registration

  • Both in-person on live-stream attendees
  • This complimentary registration is for invited speakers.
  • You will be asked to provide your university, department, and degree program (MS vs PhD).

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Oregon Lakes Association Oregon State University

Administered by Oregon Lake Association,
Oregon Health Authority, Oregon DEQ 
and Oregon State University


2026 Oregon Harmful Algal Bloom Meeting

Monday, April 6, 2026  9:00 am -12:00 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

2025 Season recap and outlook for 2026

  • 9:00 Introduction/Welcome, Theo Dreher, Oregon State University & OLA Past President
Oregon Health Authority HAB programs
  • 9:05 Gregg Baird, OHA, Drinking water cyanotoxin monitoring program
  • 9:25 Stuart Dyer and Linda Novitski, OHA, Recreational advisories: Season 2025 recap and looking ahead to 2026 
  • 9:45 Discussion/Questions
Oregon DEQ HAB programs
  • 10:00 Nathan Reetz, DEQ: DEQ Laboratory CyanoHABs Monitoring for drinking water and recreational advisories
  • 10:15 Dan Sobota and Yuan Grund DEQ: Updates to the DEQ HABs strategy
  • 10:30 Lesley Merrick  Updates on HABs assessments for the Integrated Report
  • 10:45 Discussion/Questions
  • 10:55 Break
EPA Region 10 HABs program
  • 11:00 Michelle Maier, US‐EPA Region 10 (AK, ID, OR, WA) Seattle office, HABs updates from Region 10
  • 11:30 Open forum for discussion of HABs monitoring and management around Oregon
  • 12:00 Closing comments
  • 12:15  Adjourn







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