{"id":207952,"date":"2025-07-28T14:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/?p=207952"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:56:48","slug":"heat-storms-spur-harmful-algal-blooms-in-nj-lakes-and-reservoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/2025\/07\/28\/heat-storms-spur-harmful-algal-blooms-in-nj-lakes-and-reservoirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat, storms spur harmful algal blooms in NJ lakes and reservoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/~wum\">Dr. Wu<\/a> spoke about assessment of concentration levels and detailed how complicated it is to calculate a safe threshold of HABs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Different bacteria produce very different types of cyanotoxin. While some can cause very minor symptoms, such as skin irritation, some will actually damage our liver or nervous system, and cause much more severe impact on human health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Harmful algal blooms grow in NJ lakes, reservoirs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_VEMTeK6eMo?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Meiyin Wu spoke with NJ Spotlight News about the recent Cyanobacteria spike that led the state Park Service to \u2018retire\u2019 swimming at Spruce Run Recreation Area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":207953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-media","category-marine-biology-coastal-sciences","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207954,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207952\/revisions\/207954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}