Colleen Mouw Interviewed on Huge Lake Erie Algae Bloom
Colleen Mouw, Assistant Researcher with both SSEC and CIMSS, provided expert commentary for two separate stories posted on NASA’s Earth Observatory site (13 October and 14 October) concerning recent historically large algae blooms on Lake Erie.
The CIMSS Satellite blog was updated with a post showing Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) true color and false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images of the very large algae bloom over the western end of Lake Erie on 09 October 2011.
In addition, an animation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-15) visible channel images appeared to show some movement to the algae bloom features over the lake during the course of the day.
MODIS true color and false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images showing a very large algae bloom in the western part of Lake Erie on 09 October 2011. In the true color image, the algae appears green, in contrast to the cyan appearance of suspended sediment in southern parts of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
