User:AnnalisePeters/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Harmful algal bloom

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I thought it would be interesting to know more about the Red Tide as we see it along our coast. Understanding the cause and effect of "Red Tide" is important as it is excessive algae growth that is harmful to marine environments. HAB's occurring over a long period of time negatively impact environment, economies, and animals and has been seen as an attribute to global climate change. These can occur naturally in areas but human contributions to coastal water pollution such as agriculture, industrial pollution, excessive fertilizer, and urban runoff produce excess nutrients. I found it interesting to know more about Red Tides as our human impact is increasing and elongating this occurence and causing fish and plants in those areas to not survive while many see the bioluminescence as an attracting sight.

Evaluate the article
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The lead to article provided a good introduction to the article although I think it could have been more concise. I found everything in this article to be relevant to the topic and I did not notice any out dated information. This article provided examples of these HAB's around the country as well as other parts of the world including the Gulf of Maine, Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Chesapeake Bay, Lake Erie, Green Bay, Okeechobee Waterway, Baltic Sea, and coastal seas of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. This article is neutral and the sources used are accurate and do work and most sources are from 2000-2021. There are a diverse array of authors and publications.