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UF/IFAS Wants To Hear From Those Impacted By The Red Tide of 2017-2019

Gray Vickery is one of Florida’s incoming 2022 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows. At the University of South Florida, Vickery pursued an M.S. degree in Environmental Science and Policy. He worked within the USF Coastal Research Laboratory on various coastal management projects, including erosion monitoring, inlet management, and sea turtle nesting research.

The Basics of Florida Red Tide

Red tide is an example of a harmful algal bloom, or HAB. The majority of HAB species are phytoplankton (floating algae, mostly single-celled). However, they also include some tiny microalgae