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Sunday, July 07, 2024

50 Years of Harmful Algal Blooms | NASA Earth Observatory

50 Years of Harmful Algal Blooms | NASA Earth Observatory

Mass fish deaths have ridden our planet's beaches and coastlines. New health risks are affecting coastal communities and millions of fishery-based employees are out of work. To bring light to the issue and to show how new technology is improving data collection, this visualization presents the best data currently available to show the scope of the problem. As our global climate continues to experience higher temperatures, more nutrients enter our water sources, coastal waters get warmer, algal blooms will continue to flourish in this ideal environment.

Launched in February 2024, NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Mission is designed to improve and increase the data we have collected surrounding harmful algal blooms. This data visualization depicts the scope of the data we currently have collected over the past 50 years. Much of it is taken from ships at sea and inland water ways. From this we can see that this is a global issue and learning more about this global problem will greatly further our understanding.

Learn more about NASA's PACE Mission:

https://pace.gsfc.nasa.gov/


Video Credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Visualizations: Alex Kekesi

Scientific Consultants: Ivona Cetinic, Bridget Seegers

Producers: Emme Watkins

Technical Support: Laurence Schuler

Duration: 31 seconds

Release Date: July 1, 2024


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