HAB Reports vs SIBRA | SPOTTERON Usage & Stats
From 2014 SAMS has operated an online risk assessment and early warning system for harmful algal blooms in Scottish waters. This is composed of weekly HAB risk assessments in the form of bulletins for the Shetland Shellfish industry and an open-access web portal that provides a site-specific HAB/biotoxin risk index and mathematical model-based forecasts of future HAB events. This App builds on that work to provide updates and notifications directly to your phone.
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are overgrowths of certain species of phytoplankton in water. Some produce dangerous toxins in fresh or marine water but even nontoxic blooms hurt the environment and local economies through their impact on aquaculture and other uses of the coastal zone.
HABS can produce extremely dangerous toxins that can sicken or kill people and animals. High biomass blooms create low oxygen zones in the water, other taxa can raise treatment costs for drinking water. HABs can seriously hurt the aquaculture industry that depends on a pristine environment water.
This app displays the most recently water sample data collected across Scotland and Sabah region of Malaysia. You can view this data by by individual sample site using the map function. You can also use the app to report algal blooms directly SAMS.
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Using the SIBRA App, citizens can generate reliable data on these topics and thus contribute to a better understanding of these connections. At the Geological Survey of Austria, the data is being combined with other methods of measurement and used, inter alia, in developing models and scenarios that allow for assessing possible effects of extreme weather events, such as heavy precipitation, rapid snowmelt, flooding or draught.
SIBRA stands for Systems-Integrating Bottom-up Research Application for Hydro- and Engineering Geology. And it also stands symbolic for the model region, in which the app was developed: together with committed citizens of Sibratsgfäll in the Austrian province Vorarlberg, a research project at the Geological Survey of Austria implemented an approach that involves those citizens, whose environment is in focus. Sibratsgfäll is located at the sunny side of a wide valley in the Vorderer Bregenzerwald region. The village is first and foremost shaped by agriculture and tourism. The population of the village has strongly been engaging with geological processes, since they had to cope with the aftermath of a massive landslide at Rindberg in 1999.
The SIBRA App now provides a collectively developed measurement tool that supplements other existing methods in the areas of hydro- and engineering geology, expands data availability, and enables interested citizens to actively engage with processes like geological mass movements and hydrogeology.
The app is running on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science platform.
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HAB Reports VS. 
SIBRA | SPOTTERONDecember 17, 2024