NOAA is Developing Underwater Robots to Map, Measure Toxicity of Great Lakes Algal Blooms

ENN
Aug 16, 2019, 8:14 am898 ptsInteresting
Two underwater robots will be gliding throughout the western Lake Erie basin this week, as NOAA and its partners at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) test technology to autonomously monitor and measure the toxicity of harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes.

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