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The state, but much of that work is focused on larger bodies of water such as Mobileīay. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management monitors water quality throughout

“In the fall, we have red tide that migrates up the coast from Florida, and we begin “That’s something that hasn’t been quantified, at least in Alabama,” Lehrter said. These blooms often kill fish and leave noxiousįumes, while toxins accumulate in sediment along the Gulf of Mexico. The research plan for the next three years includes emerging concerns such as testingįor algae blooms and red tide outbreaks. “I’m hoping that this program will become a platform,” Lehrter said, “for students Graduate students from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The important work done by USA researchers.”Ĭontributing to the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council project will be marine scientistsįrom Auburn and North Carolina State University. “Every time people click on that information,” he said, “they will be reminded of That the project will offer public information on water quality websites for everyoneįrom fishers to environmentalists and homeowners. Sean Powers, director of the School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, noted “At a really fundamental level, this project is about going out, very frequently,ĭr. “Without that baseline, we don’t have a good way to tell the story,Ģ0 years from now, after we spend hundreds of millions of dollars on projects that “We don’t have a good quantitative baseline for where we are,” said Lehrter, professor After federal approval from the Gulf CoastĮcosystem Restoration Council, water and sediment testing should begin in 2023. The three-year program will be funded by the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council with John Lehrter and the University of South Alabama School of Marine and Environmental Sciences will play a lead role in a $3.1 million project to study water and sediment quality

Worry about, and what are the places that have good quality?”ĭr.

“At a really fundamental level, this project is about going out, very frequently,Īnd trying to get the pulse of state water quality. John Lehrter, on a vessel off the Alabama coast inĢ021, is leading a study to arrive at a baseline for water and sediment quality in