Effort launched to develop statewide monitoring strategy for freshwater HABs

The initiative, which launched in January, is intended to provide the State Water Board and its management partners with a roadmap for how California’s water-quality management community could systematically assess water bodies’ susceptibility to HABs, understand drivers and optimally respond.

SCCWRP is planning to assemble a working group of managers and scientific experts who will identify managers’ key data needs, assessment questions, and recommended indicators and protocols.

The HABs monitoring strategy will build off a 2015 report co-authored by SCCWRP that laid out a broad strategy for how California managers could respond to HABs events. The monitoring strategy will be a key component of operationalizing California’s HABs response strategy.