GlobalHAB is an international coordinating group that facilitates and encourages cooperation on scientific research addressing Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in a changing world to accelerate scientific advances, leading to improved understanding, prevention, and mitigation of HABs. A follow-on to GEOHAB, the GlobalHAB programme has been endorsed by IOC, SCOR, and the IAEA. The new GlobalHAB program will address the most relevant objectives partially accomplished by GEOHAB and incorporate new pressing issues that arose with time. It will also take into consideration several recommendations posed by the international community to make the new program relevant to contemporary and future research, funding, and management priorities, continuing to privilege an international approach based on science. These issues include mitigation strategies, impacts on human health in collaboration with the medical and social experts, improve toxin detection (specially on emerging compounds), HABs dynamics under climate change scenarios or economic valuation of HABs impacts. GlobalHAB will retain a strong research-based focus, and concurrently contribute to the application of sound research to management questions in order to broaden international support

Harmful Algal Blooms and Climate Change Scientific Symposium, 19-22 May 2015, Gӧteborg, Sweden.-- 1 page

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