Ongoing
Steve Rock and Glenn Saunders
Environmental monitoring is a rapid area of growth that is relying on new engineering solutions for automated data collection. The Center for Automation Technology and Systems is collaborating with the Jefferson Project to design and build new generations of sensor platforms, including vertical profilers and new, low-cost harmful algal bloom sensors. These sensors, combined with a new generation of algorithms, allow real-time data collection with a greater number of integrated sensors and adaptive sampling to collect more and higher quality data from freshwater ecosystems.