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Dr. Barbara Kirkpatrick, Program Manager The Environmental Health Program focuses on the impacts of toxic substances on humans. Dr. Kirkpatrick's work includes human health studies to determine how people with chronic lung problems are affected by Florida red tides. Her medical background gives the center a link between ecologically distributed toxic substances and public health concerns. <a href="http://isurus.mote.org/niehsredtidestudy/">Further Information on human health studies and red tide.</a>

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Evaluation of harmful algal bloom outreach activities.

Fleming, Lora E.; Jerez, Eva; Stephan, Wendy Blair; Cassedy, Amy; Bean, Judy A.; Reich, Andrew; Kirkpatrick, Barbara A.; Backer, Lorraine; Nierenberg, Kate; ...[et al.]. (MDPI Publishing, www.mdpi.org/marinedrugs, 2007)

With an apparent increase of harmful algal blooms (HABs) worldwide,healthcare providers, public health personnel and coastal managers are struggling to provide scientifically-based appropriately-targeted HAB outreach and ...
Recreational exposure to low concentrations of microcystins during an algal bloom in a small lake.

Backer, Lorraine C.; Carmichael, Wayne; Kirkpatrick, Barbara A.; ...[et al]. (MDPI Publishing, www.mdpi.org/marinedrugs, 2008)

We measured microcystins in blood from people at risk for swallowing water or inhaling spray while swimming, water skiing, jet skiing, or boating during an algal bloom. We monitored water samples from a small lake as a ...
Mote / FWC - FWRI cooperative red tide research program : monitoring, prediction and mitigation of Florida red tides. Second progress report FY - 2008 to 2009, for period October 1 to December 31, 2008. Project period July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.

Pierce, Richard H.; Bartels, Erich; Dixon, L. Kellie; Henry, Michael S.; Kirkpatrick, Barbara A.; Kirkpatrick, Gary J. (Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2008-12-31)

This report describes the progress during the second quarter of the FY- 2008-2009 cooperative program between the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission/Fish and Wildlife Research Institute and Mote Marine ...

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