Algal often refers to issues affecting water bodies and ecosystem health.

Environmental Concern

Used frequently in biology and ecology to discuss algae's role or effects.

Scientific Context

While algal can imply problems like blooms, not all algal presence is negative.

Not Always Bad

 That ability to send a message saying, "This is where I am," is really, really important. If you think about the oil slicks that we saw before, or those massive algal blooms, what you really want to do is put your Row-bot out there, and it eats up all of those pollutions, and then you have to go collect them. Why?

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 Mussels and other bivalves do tremendous amounts of water filtration. A single mussel can filter dozens of gallons every single day. And this is incredibly important when we look at the world. Right now, nitrification, overuse of phosphates in our waterways are causing tremendous algal blooms.

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 we'll check more algal bloom that we sort of see in the water tomorrow when we can get close to it and it's like I said earlier it's great if you're an ambush predator and you're thinking murky waters nothing we'll see you camp but it makes it hard for us to spot things and there too it's

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 in the installed system. So the column actually had another very nice feature, and that is the algae settle in the column, and this allowed us to accumulate the algal biomass in a context where we could easily harvest it. So we would remove the algaes that concentrated

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 Guatemala working with the local communities helping them understand toxic algal blooms what do you see is the biggest challenges to the sort of capacity-building that's needed at the community level or the government local governmental level to help with the

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 Except it's supposed to be brown. What happens is that the corals are a symbiosis, and they have these little algal cells that live inside them. And the algae give the corals sugar, and the corals give the algae nutrients and protection.

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 nutrients up from the depths to the surface layers these up Wellings fertilise forests of giant kelp that thrive in the summer sunshine the algal towers are as high as a three-storey house and they can grow by half a meter a day

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 have been the last five. That bodes really well for harmful algal blooms and poorly for ecosystem health. Now, you may not care about shellfish, but these changes impact economically important fisheries, like crab and salmon,

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 that's naturally produced by these algae the toxin binds to receptors in the brain causing seizures and brain damage will get sick sea lions in the hospital anytime there's a harmful algal bloom

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 from the algae it eats by piercing the algal cells with specialized pointy teeth, called radula. It sucks the cell empty and digests most of its contents, but the chloroplasts remain intact.