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The important ecological role of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) makes its year-to-year distribution of significant interest to environmental monitoring organizations. The use of drones to perform the task of SAV monitoring through multispectral analyses is a promising tool to achieve a methodology that is automatable, repeatable, time efficient, and accessible.… Read more →
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High bacterial levels in recreational bodies of water can be a risk to human health, and significant effort and funding are invested in monitoring fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) levels. Despite the health risk, methods commonly utilized to determine bacterial concentrations provide no information about the source of contamination. This study… Read more →
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Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) is critical to maintaining water quality and providing food and shelter for numerous estuarine organisms. As part of a larger project to restore SAV in the Chesapeake Bay, the goals of this research project were to identify healthy beds for seed harvesting, harvest seeds from four… Read more →