We're looking forward to welcoming you to Aberdeen in 2027!

Biennial ICHAs provide a meeting place for the global community of practitioners, educators, and researchers in the field of Harmful Algae both in marine and freshwater settings. These gatherings incorporate elements of academic and professional conferences, including presentations of research, reflections on practice, and practical lab-based and classroom workshops.  The conferences are open to all who have a professional or personal interest in Harmful Algae, such as industry representatives, educators, researchers, or in any combination of these roles.

The conference will take place at a variety of locations around the city - giving you a chance to explore.  We hope you'll also extend your stay so you can experience what the wider region, and the rest of Scotland has to offer.

If you'd like to keep up to date with our plans for the conference please use the QR Code below to sign up to our mailing list - we promise not to bombard you with hundreds of emails - but we'll update you with information about speakers, abstract submission, registration opening and other key information. 


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Sessions

The conference's overarching theme is Prediction, prevention and mitigation of harmful algal blooms; safeguarding food and water production in a changing climate.

Proposed sessions include:

  • Advances in genomics, phylogeny and taxonomy
  • HAB occurrence and biogeography
  • HAB ecology and population dynamics
  • Benthic HABs in marine and freshwater ecosystems
  • Advances in HAB toxicology
  • HAB impacts on aquatic food webs
  • Impacts of HABs on farmed fish and shellfish
  • Tools for monitoring HABs and toxins
  • Harmful algal bloom prediction
  • Innovations in HAB mitigation strategies
  • HABs in changing ecosystems
  • Microalgal Biotechnology
  • Citizen science in HABs monitoring
  • HABs education