#sanfraniscobay — Public Fediverse posts

We need your help keeping an eye out for #algae blooms in the Bay 🦠

As the weather heats up, conditions will be ripe for harmful algae blooms (HABs). After a devastating #HAB in 2022, we ramped up our algae monitoring program and now have a team algae sampling across the Bay Area through the summer.

But we could always use more eyes on the Bay 👀 If you see coffee-colored water or unusually red or bright green water in the Bay, take photos, note down the time & exact location, and reach out to our pollution tip line: https://baykeeper.org/report-pollution/

Photos: First two photos are of brown-colored water during a small algae bloom in #Alameda in 2024 that luckily dissipated quickly. The third photo is a close-up image of the alga Akashiwo sanguinea 🔬 and the last image is of our team collecting samples from the Bay #algaebloom #harmfulalgaeblooms #sanfraniscobay #bayarea #sfbay #waterpollution

Late last week, our community science monitoring program detected a harmful #algae bloom in #Alameda 🦠

⚠️ If you see signs of a bloom—including tea-like or otherwise discolored water—please avoid contact with the affected area and reach out to our pollution hotline:

https://baykeeper.org/update/harmful-algae-bloom-detected-in-alameda/

#harmfulalgaebloom #HAB #sfbay #sanfraniscobay #bayarea #pollution #waterpollution

Cool photos of an #osprey nest in Richmond from our amazing volunteer photographer Robb Most

#wildlife #birding #richmondca #sfbay #sanfraniscobay #eastbay

We're urging people to stay out of #SFBay for another couple of days following sewage spills caused by the storms: "The bacteria and pathogens and viruses and chemicals haven't really had a chance to flush out of the bay yet," Baykeeper Director Sejal Choksi-Chugh said to @[email protected] https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-bay-sewage-wastewater-california-storms/12717011/
#bayarea #sanfraniscobay #sewage #pollution #rain