{"id":12366,"date":"2025-10-20T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/12366\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:38:09","slug":"new-ai-system-spots-red-tide-blooms-helping-the-gulf-coast-get-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/12366\/","title":{"rendered":"New AI System Spots Red Tide Blooms, Helping the Gulf Coast Get Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created an AI system that predicts red tide blooms along Southwest Florida&#8217;s coast with striking precision. The system scans waters from Venice to Estero Bay each week, giving officials time to plan for these toxic outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>Miles Medina of Ecco Scientific built this prediction tool. &#8220;What we set out to do was try to develop a model that could take in data, environmental data, in real time and produce a forecast of when red tide would be showing up,&#8221; Medina said per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/collier\/new-machine-learning-model-predicts-red-tide-in-southwest-florida\/article_e85b64de-1dbb-4a7f-9752-5241d3ce95ff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WINK News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tests show the system works well. Short-term predictions hit 73% accuracy, while month-long forecasts reach 84%, which is far better than previous methods.<\/p>\n<p>The AI tracks red tide intensity from baseline to critical levels above 1 million cells per liter. Based on current data, the system warns of severe conditions approaching the region by late October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Eikenberg from the Everglades Foundation points to practical benefits. &#8220;It provides water managers with a new tool in the toolbox to potentially make decisions on how Lake Okeechobee is going to be managed,&#8221; Eikenberg said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 15-month bloom inspired the AI model.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local residents welcome the advance notice. Tourist Brenda Tremblay shared her experience: &#8220;When it&#8217;s here, you get a little tickle in your throat and a little cough. That would be so great if we knew when it was coming, or, you know how severe it was going to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State wildlife officials now check these forecasts regularly. Plans are in motion to watch the entire Gulf shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Predicting a red tide doesn&#8217;t mean we can stop it, but at least we can see it coming and try to prepare,&#8221; Medina said. This warning system helps shield communities from the worst impacts on tourism, fishing, and local economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists have created an AI system that predicts red tide blooms along Southwest Florida&#8217;s coast with striking precision.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2872,28,30,29,11245],"class_list":{"0":"post-12366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-red-tide"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}