Lake Okeechobee Watershed - 16S rRNA Characterization

This project is a part of a collaborative scientific study incorporating a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the US Geological Survey (USGS), South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), academia (Nova Southeastern University CESU, Florida Gulf Coast University) to characterize the microbial communities and environmental parameters that can lead to massive cyanobacterial blooms related to the Lake Okeechobee (LO) watershed. This project addresses the overarching goal of assessing the biodiversity of the microbial communities within LO along a spatiotemporal gradient. This project is a subset of a larger Bioproject (Accession #: PRJNA813570).