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Tropical Storm Gordon's Possible Impacts on Red Tide

A single-cell of the algae species Karenia brevis, which causes Florida red tide.
Mote Marine Laboratory
A single-cell of the algae species Karenia brevis, which causes Florida red tide.

While Tropical Storm Gordon only brought a few days or so of heavy rain to southwest Florida, scientists say its path up the coast, and its persistent offshore winds, might actually diminish the intensity of the ongoing red tide bloom that’s been killing marine life and causing respiratory irritation for nearly a year now. While the data is still coming in, we’re checking in with Dr. Rick Bartleson, Research Scientist with the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation. He's been testing water samples collected near Sanibel Island.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.