The week in monitoring news (Aug. 17, 2012)

This week in environmental monitoring news:

• High-tech systems aim to monitor South Carolina ocean waters, via WMBF News.
• First Nations slam oilsands monitoring, via the Canadian Press.
• Shanghai logs its longest stretch of cleanest air since monitoring began, via East Day.
• The U.S. Navy FLIP: a radical ship for ocean-atmosphere research, via the Washington Post.
• UC researchers: Sensors to predict snowmelt, increase water efficiency, via the Merced Sun-Star.
• Radar study could help predict dangerous Great Lakes currents, via Great Lakes Echo.