<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/28ab40e7-b0dc-4047-b310-8e95f76653fc/AAD276F8-8D7F-4BD1-90B8-EAF5C789F30B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nontoxic-algae-not-oil-spill-or-pes-2009-02-20" href="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nontoxic-algae-not-oil-spill-or-pes-2009-02-20" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciam.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nontoxic-algae-not-oil-spill-or-pes-2009-02-20">207 birds were found dead and 550 were stranded</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nontoxic-algae-not-oil-spill-or-pes-2009-02-20">Now, the "<A href="http://www.ibrrc.org/Moss_Landing07_mystery_spill.html">mystery spill</A>" has been solved. It wasn't the Cosco Busan oil spill in nearby San Francisco Bay or a controversial aerial pesticide spraying along the Central Coast. It was harmless-looking foam from an ordinarily nontoxic algal bloom churned up by November waves</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nontoxic-algae-not-oil-spill-or-pes-2009-02-20"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sciam.com/img/3644336A-7125-4FBB-9852-B29792B2776E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nontoxic-algae-not-oil-spill-or-pes-2009-02-20">This disabled the natural water-repellent coating on the feathers of floating loons, grebes, northern fulmars and other birds in the bay, soaking them through and rendering them susceptible to the chilly autumn Pacific water</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nontoxic-algae-not-oil-spill-or-pes-2009-02-20"> A satellite had picked up images of a bloom, or "<A href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-are-outbreaks-of-pfie ">red tide</A>" of the nontoxic algae <EM>Akashiwo sanguinea</EM> in the bay. Algal blooms can be triggered by a variety of causes—many of which are not easy to predict—including an excess of nutrients and other just-right conditions for the phytoplankton populations to explode. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nontoxic-algae-not-oil-spill-or-pes-2009-02-20">a curious <A href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coral-withstands-bleachin ">coral bleaching</A> event that was linked to this same sort of algae</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AAD276F8-8D7F-4BD1-90B8-EAF5C789F30B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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