WATER QUALITY MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT:
DIFFERENT APPROACHES OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING FOR ALGAL BLOOMS
Speaker
Prof Dr Tri Nguyen-Quang
Dalhouse University
Canada
The overall and common goal of all algal bloom models in water quality monitoring and water management is to attempt to explain the risks of algal/cyanobacterial blooms, to study their evolution under environment conditions leading to the improvement or decision process used to monitor cyanobacteria. However, almost all existing models have focused on the target variables such as Chl-a concentration development, cell count numbers of taxa or genera, biomass etc., from them authors could conclude about the bloom situation.
The talk will present two main directions of modeling among many others that should be developed 1) Determination of biophysical threshold for blooms; and 2) Quantifying and Modeling the toxin concentration released by toxic species.