2026 Oregon Harmful Algal Bloom Meeting

When
Monday, April 06, 2026
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
Oregon State University: Memorial Union Room 213 and Live-Stream via Zoom
Spaces left
80

2026 Oregon CyanoHABs Meeting Registration – $10.00
Both in-person on live-stream attendees
Complimentary for Monday Morning Meeting
Complimentary registration for attendance of participants in the Monday Morning Meeting (from 10-11 AM only).
Speaker complimentary registration
This complimentary registration is for invited speakers.
Student
You will be asked to provide your university, department, and degree program (MS vs PhD).

Registration is closed

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

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

Additional Links from the OLA /OSU CyanoHABs meeting

DEQ Water Quality Assessment:
https://www.oregon.gov/deq/wq/Pages/WQ-Assessment.aspx
OLA Drinking water online data: https://yourwater.oregon.gov/cyanocounty.php
Kurt Carpenter 2025 Phycology paper:
https://www.clackamasproviders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Reservoir-and-Riverine-Sources-of-Cyanotoxin-in-Oregon-2025.pdf
PNAS river cyanocommentary: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407913121
Data center news:
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2026/03/amazon-will-pay-205-million-to-settle-oregon-data-center-pollution-allegations.html
Join Oregon Lakes Association: https://www.oregonlakes.org/Join_OLA