Marine Research Centers

• Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research
• Cawthron Institute- New Zealand
• Marine Biotoxins Program- NOAA Charleston
• San Francisco Estuary Institute
• UNC Wilmington Center for Marine Science
• University of Maryland-Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory
• Smithsonian Institution
  * Habitat change and growth of Gambierdiscus toxicus
  * Trophic transfer of ciguatera toxins
  * Taxonomy of benthic dinoflagellates
• Mote Marine Laboratory
  * Accumulation of brevetoxins in shellfish
  * Diel behavior / growth regulation in Karenia brevis
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  * Molecular probes for Pseudo-nitzschia spp.
  * Detection of Domoic Acid in phytoplankton and living marine resources
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  * Trophic transfer of PSP toxins
  * Measurements of dissolved and particulate PSP toxins in the Gulf of Maine
  * Taxonomy of Alexandrium spp.

Harmful Algal Blooms

• State of the Coastal Environment- NOAA
• Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act (HABHRCA)
• Harmful Algal Blooms in North Carolina

General Phycology

• Algae: The Forgotten Treasures of Tidepools
• Bowling Green State U. (Center for Algal Microscopy and Image Digitization)
• UC Berkeley Catalogue of Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean
• Czechoslovak Database of Algae and Cyanobacteria
• Checklist of Phytoplankton in the Skagerrak Kattegat
• Checklist of the Seaweeds of Britain, Ireland, and Northern Europe
• Checklist of the Benthic Marine Algae of Puerto Rico
• Eastern Connecticut State University Chlamydomonas Teaching Center
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
• Cyanosite
• Diatom Home Page
• Diatom Literature Database
• Dinoflagellate Classification Database
• Emiliania huxleyi Home Page
• International Society for Phycology
• Irish Marine Institute
• Nongeniculate coralline algae
• Phycological Society of America
• Protist Image Data
• Seaweeed Information Center
• The University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria
• The World of Algae
• University of Calgary Dinoflagellate Page

Shellfish

• National Shellfisheries Association
• Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory

Federal

1. United States Environmental Protection Agency
   -- National Health & Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
   -- Gulf Breeze Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, Florida
   * Regulation of Karenia brevis
   * Detection methods for brevetoxin
   * Bacterial-HAB interaction
   -- Neurotoxicology Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
   * Health effects of Ciguatoxins and Brevetoxins
2. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
   -- National Center for Environmental Health
   -- Division of Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia
   * Pfiesteria toxin purification and structural analysis
   * Detection methods for Pfiesteria toxins
3. United States Food & Drug Administration
   -- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
   -- Office of Seafood, Washington, DC
   * Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxicity
   -- Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Dauphin Island, Alabama
   * Detection methods for brevetoxins and ciguatoxins
4. National Institute of Health
   -- Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
   -- Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
   * Detection methods for Pfiesteria toxin
5. United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases
   -- Fort Detrick, Maryland
   * Detection methods for brevetoxins

State

1. Maine Department of Marine Resources
   * Detection of PSP, DSP, and ASP toxins in shellfish
   * Phytoplankton Monitoring Network
2. Massachusetts Department of Health
   * Detection of PSP toxins in shellfish
3. Maryland Department of Natural Resources
   * Detection methods for Pfiesteria toxins
4. North Carolina State University
   -- Pfiesteria Research Laboratory, Raleigh, North Carolina
   * Detection methods for Pfiesteria toxins
   * Purification of Pfiesteria toxins
   * Taxonomy of Pfiesteria-like dinoflagellates
5. South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control
   * Detection of Pfiesteria and its toxins
6. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
   * Detection of Pfiesteria and its toxins
7. University of Georgia
   -- Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
   * Novel toxin screening
   * Brevetoxin/maitotoxin mechanism of action
8. Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission
   -- Florida Marine Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida
   * Detection of brevetoxins in shellfish and protected resources
   * Detection of toxins in Pfiesteria-like dinoflagellates
   * Life cycle/growth regulation in Karenia brevis
9. Louisiana University Marine Consortium
   * Detection of Domoic Acid in Gulf of Mexico phytoplankton
   * Eutrophication effects of distribution and abundance of Pseudo-nitzschia spp.
10. California Department of Health Services
    * Detection of PSP toxins
11. Department of Ocean Sciences
    -- University of California at Santa Cruz
    * Trophic transfer of Domoic Acid in Monterey Bay, California
12. Alaska Department of Health & Social Services
    * Detection of PSP toxins in humans
13. University of Alaska
    -- Institute of Marine Science, Fairbanks, Alaska
    * Genetic basis of PSP toxin synthesis

 

International

1. Benguela Environment Fisheries Interaction & Training Program
   * BENEFIT- Swakopmund, Namibia
   * Technology transfer of receptor assays for PSP toxins
2. Philippines Nuclear Research Institute
   * IAEA-Manila, Philippines
   * Technology transfer of receptor assays for PSP toxins
3. Scottish Association for Marine Science
   * Oban, Argyll, P434, 4AP, UK
   * ASP analysis in scallops
4. Foundation Clencia Para Lo Vida
   * Santiago, Chile
   * Molecular probe development
5. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
   * Moscow, Russia
   * Identification and characterization of toxic algae in Russian European coastal wate