Historical Survey - Algal Blooms

The HABs Historical Survey helps Lake Pulse Subscribers identify long-term patterns in harmful algal blooms, enabling proactive management to reduce risks to water quality, public health, and recreational use.

3-Week Recap – Provides a detailed look at how algal blooms developed across the lake over the past 2–3 weeks. This helps identify where the bloom first appeared, how it spread, and where the highest concentrations built up over time.

10-Year Recap – Provides a decade-long perspective to reveal trends in bloom frequency, severity, and timing, helping guide long-term management strategies.

Top-3 Bloom Deep Dive – Examines the most significant recent blooms in detail to understand their triggers, progression, and impacts, informing targeted prevention and response measures.

Custom Deep Dive – Allows focused analysis of any time period, enabling investigations tied to specific events, climate shifts, or management interventions.

3-Week Recap 

• Detailed summary of bloom development across part or all of the lake over the past 2–3 weeks.
• Identifies where the bloom first appeared and tracks how denser concentrations accumulated over time.
• Useful for understanding short-term bloom dynamics, recent risk exposure, and near-term management needs.

10-Year Abstract 

• Single chart showing annual bloom activity for the past 10 years.
• Quick visual identification of years with the highest bloom activity.
• Ideal for budget-friendly, big-picture trend tracking.

Top-3 Bloom Deep Dive

• Granular charts and high-resolution images of the three most significant blooms from the last 10 years.
• Visual mapping of bloom onset, development, and movement through the lake.
• Insights into possible triggers and high-impact zones for each bloom.

Custom Deep Dive

• All the detail of the Top-3 Deep Dive, applied to any period of time you choose.
• Flexible scope—for example, a focus on just the last 3 years, or a specific period tied to major weather events or interventions.
• Tailored data outputs to support targeted management, funding applications, or research.

3-Week Recap – A short-term analysis showing how blooms developed across the lake over the past 2–3 weeks. Tracks where the bloom first appeared, how it grew, and where dense concentrations accumulated.

10-Year Abstract – A single, easy-to-read chart summarizing annual bloom activity over the past decade, showing which years had the most and least HAB occurrence.

Top-3 Bloom Deep Dive – A detailed visual report with charts and high-resolution satellite imagery of the three most significant blooms in the last 10 years, mapping where they began and how they spread across the lake.

Custom Deep Dive – A tailored visual report with charts and imagery covering any time period you choose, offering the same granular detail as the Top-3 but focused on your specific timeframe of interest.