ENRTF ID: 112-B

Project Title: Assessing Human Exposure Risk to Harmful Algae Blooms

Category: B. Water Resources

Summary: Developing needed economic framework and tools for communities so they can assess the associated health risk and costs of chronic exposure to harmful algal blooms poisoning in lakes and ponds

Total Project Budget: $ 529,632
Proposed Project Time Period for the Funding Requested: June 30, 2023 (3 yrs)

Name: Shahram Missaghi
Sponsoring Organization: U of MN
Address: 4100 220th Street W.
Farmington MN 55024
Telephone Number: (952) 221-1333
Email miss0035@umn.edu

Location: Statewide

Alternate Text for Visual: It shows that we will use field data to develop HABs’ Exposure Risk Maps to determine potential human health risk that will make the MN communities more resilient to HABs