NOAA’s Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms Research Program focuses on transitioning promising technologies and strategies to coastal managers to help develop cost-effective HAB management strategies.

The PCMHAB program funds research to move promising technologies for preventing, controlling, or mitigating HABs and their impacts through development, to demonstration, and, finally application, culminating in wide spread use in the field by end-users.

The program also funds socioeconomic research to assess impacts of HAB events on coastal economies and societies, and the costs and benefits of mitigation strategies to aid managers in devising cost-effective management strategies.