Oregon Lakes Association upcoming events

2026 Oregon Harmful Algal Bloom Meeting (Monday, April 06, 2026)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Administered by Oregon Lake Association,
Oregon Health Authority, Oregon DEQ
and Oregon State University

2026 Oregon Harmful Algal Bloom Meeting

Monday, April 6, 2026 9:00 am -12:00 pm

Memorial Union Room 213
Oregon State University, Corvallis
and live-stream via Zoom

Participants (in-person and live-stream)	$10.00
Speakers	free
Students	free

Program

2025 Season recap and outlook for 2026

9:00 Introduction/Welcome, Theo Dreher, Oregon State University & OLA Past President

Oregon Health Authority HAB programs

9:05 Gregg Baird, OHA, Drinking water cyanotoxin monitoring program
9:25 Stuart Dyer and Linda Novitski, OHA, Recreational advisories: Season 2025 recap and looking ahead to 2026
9:45 Discussion/Questions

Oregon DEQ HAB programs

10:00 Nathan Reetz, DEQ: DEQ Laboratory CyanoHABs Monitoring for drinking water and recreational advisories
10:15 Dan Sobota and Yuan Grund DEQ: Updates to the DEQ HABs strategy
10:30 Lesley Merrick Updates on HABs assessments for the Integrated Report
10:45 Discussion/Questions
10:55 Break

EPA Region 10 HABs program

11:00 Michelle Maier, US‐EPA Region 10 (AK, ID, OR, WA) Seattle office, HABs updates from Region 10
11:30 Open forum for discussion of HABs monitoring and management around Oregon
12:00 Closing comments
12:15 Adjourn