Essay #2 Red Tide by Reese Crafton

Ferreira 812

craftonreese — 2024-03-05 16:53:52 UTC

“This event generated $317 million in sales revenue losses and resulted in the loss of nearly 2900 job-years throughout Florida.”

Perkins 2

craftonreese — 2024-03-05 16:55:06 UTC

“One notion is to pull water infested with K. brevis into a large tank and zap it with ozone. This highly reactive molecule both kills the red tide organism and breaks down the toxins it produces into harmless by-products.”

Perkins 2

craftonreese — 2024-03-05 16:55:42 UTC

“The glider detected the colder, saltier water of a deep-sea upwelling that would transport K. brevis up to the coastal shelf. A combination of low dissolved oxygen content, signaling the presence of decaying organic matter,”

Walter 191

craftonreese — 2024-03-05 16:56:21 UTC

“These significant bay-wide changes in the sand seatrout spawning population coincided with the red tide event, most notably the considerable decline in the lower bay,”

Pierce 624

craftonreese — 2024-03-05 16:57:51 UTC

“This dinoflagellate produces a suite of polyether neurotoxins, called brevetoxins, that cause severe impacts to natural resources, as well as public health.” (Pierce)

Pierce 625

craftonreese — 2024-03-05 16:58:39 UTC

“ Impacts include massive fish kills, marine mammal, sea turtle and sea bird mortalities, benthic community die-off and public health effects from shellfish contamination and inhalation of air-borne toxins.”

Connection

craftonreese — 2024-03-05 17:07:31 UTC

Both show ways we can detect and predict red tide which is typically hard to do

Fleming, Lora E., et al 1095

craftonreese — 2024-03-06 02:35:48 UTC

Florida red tides are a manifestation of the larger growing environmental issue of harmful algal blooms

Fleming, Lora E., et al 1096

craftonreese — 2024-03-06 02:48:57 UTC

Our prior research demonstrated that persons with a physician diagnosis of asthma experience a statistically significant change in their respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function after a 1-hr visit to the beach during a documented Florida red tide; these changes are not seen when the same individuals visit the beach for 1 hr during a non-Florida red tide period (Fleming et al. 2007; Milian et al. 2007).

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craftonreese — 2024-03-06 03:02:27 UTC

Red tide can significantly damage all life it comes into contact to, man and wildlife.

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craftonreese — 2024-03-06 03:09:20 UTC

It not only affects living things but resources and capital as well.

Nwankwegu, Amechi S., et al 449

craftonreese — 2024-03-06 03:17:41 UTC

"It recognizes that each mitigation strategy shows characteristic associated limitations and notes that no remedial step has provided a sustainable solution to HABs on a global scale."

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craftonreese — 2024-03-06 03:21:45 UTC

There are no clear and simple remedies or solutions. We will have to get creative in order to solve this problem.