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The week in monitoring news (July 27, 2012)

By on July 27, 2012
Water

Environmental monitoring in the news this week:

  • Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to monitor air quality at shale drilling sites, via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  • University of Maryland recruits Navy-developed unmanned vehicle to monitor Chesapeake Bay hypoxia, Hudson River sediment, via Military and Aerospace Electronics.
  • NOAA, the University of Toledo and Blue Water Satellite, Inc. are partnering to track algae and measure phosphorous in Lake Erie by satellite, via Government Computer News.
  • Scottish researchers are tagging basking sharks with tracking devices and broadcasting the sharks’ movements online, via BBC News.

About Jeff Gillies

Jeff spent three years writing about fish and science around the Great Lakes. Now he writes here about fish and science across the country. He's the editor of the Environmental Monitor.

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