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Correlation Matrices Of Cyanobacterial Bloom Predictors Varies Between Lakes, Jessica E. Torrey, Shemaiah S. Sotrah, Michael Grove, Courtney E. Richmond, Nathan Ruhl

Biology Student Symposium Posters

Under anthropogenically-altered conditions, cyanobacteria may form harmful algal blooms (cHABs) that can be toxic and disrupt ecosystem function. Developing tools to predict cHABs is an increasingly important task, but such tools have been difficult to develop. In our study, we contribute to the development of a predictive model for cHAB formation in the waters of southern New Jersey by statistically screening water quality data from five polymictic reservoirs that were sampled weekly from June through September 2019. The correlation structure of water quality variables differed between the reservoirs in a way that suggests that the mean correlation coefficient is elevated …