Justin D. Chaffin

Justin D. Chaffin studies harmful algal blooms in freshwater lakes, especially Lake Erie, focusing on the cyanobacteria that produce toxins such as microcystins and saxitoxins. His work combines field monitoring, laboratory experiments, and genomic/metagenomic tools to understand what drives bloom growth, toxin production, and decline, and to test treatments (like ozone nanobubbles and algaecides) and forecasting systems for managing these blooms. This research is relevant to water quality management and environmental monitoring in the Great Lakes region.

Publication output has been fairly steady over the past decade with some fluctuation, showing a recent increase in the last two to three years (around 5-8 papers per year) compared to earlier years.

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