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Program: The scientists searching for answers to algal bloom

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Australian marine scientists have an unprecedented disaster happening right before them, the toxic algal bloom in South Australian waters.

It's meant some of their research projects have had to be abandoned.

But they're making an urgent pivot, hoping to learn as much as they can about this bloom and mitigate future ones. 

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Prof Liz Dinsdale, Flinders University
Prof Shauna Murray, UTS Sydney
Prof Gustaaf Hallegraeff, University of Tasmania 

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Professor Liz Dinsdale and a student filtering components of the microbial and viral community from water samples.

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