The researchers are using an autonomous underwater vehicle to measure slices of water quality. The slender, battery-powered vehicle is about 3 feet long and is programmed to trace specific routes in collecting data such as oxygen and chlorophyll concentrations, pH, and turbidity. Strings of sensors extending to the lake bottom from buoys also are recording temperature readings every 15 minutes.
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Robot Submarine Patrols Lake Michigan for Climate-Change Study, by Emil Venere
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Asian Carp Invasion: Potential Economic and Ecological Impacts in the Great Lakes
Apr 6, 2010The spread of Asian carp toward the Great Lakes continues to cause great controversy.
