The week in monitoring news (July 27, 2012)

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.