In this episode I talk with Shannon Cellan about paralytic shellfish toxins and her work at the Sitka Tribe of Alaska.
Links!Shellfish Testing Data: https://seator.org/data/
Shellfish Testing Map: https://ahab.portal.aoos.org/#map
Sitka Tribe of Alaska Environmental Research Lab (how to submit shellfish for testing): https://seator.org/lab/
Vocab!
Action Potential - https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ap.html
Alexandrium - https://accs.uaa.alaska.edu/wp-content/uploads/NOAA-PMN-Factsheet-Alexandrium_spp..pdf
Cyanobacteria - https://asm.org/articles/2021/september/cyanobacteria-blankets-of-doom-causes-and-effects
Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) - https://www.noaa.gov/what-is-harmful-algal-bloom
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning - https://dec.alaska.gov/eh/fss/shellfish/paralytic-shellfish-poisoning/
Poison vs. Toxin - https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/364-poisons-and-toxins
Phytoplankton - https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/phyto.html
Saxitoxin - https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Saxitoxin
Sodium Ion Channel - https://kids.kiddle.co/Ion_channel
