The ESP in the news
2017
- 07/20/17: “University of Michigan robotic lab tracking Lake Erie water” — Port Clinton News Herald
- 07/11/17: “Ocean’s microbial megacity: Like humans, the sea’s most abundant organisms have clear daily cycles” — National Science Foundation
- 07/10/17: New research finds ocean’s most abundant organisms have clear daily cycles — Hawaii Reporter
- 01/23/17: Team Update
2016
- 06/02/16: “Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Bowdoin collaborate to monitor ‘red tide’ phytoplankton” — Bowdoin News
- 04/23/16: “Robotic Laboratories Fan Out to Study the Seas” — Scientific American
2015
- 08/31/15: “How Many Fish in the Sea? Genetic Testing Could Answer That” — KQED Science
- 05/28/15: “Toxic bloom impacts Monterey Bay marine life” — Monterey Herald
2014
- 05/08/14: “Monitoring impacts of changing Gulf of Maine conditions on New England red tide” — Phys.org
2013
- 08/26/13: “Stanford-affiliated sea-faring robot searches for toxic algae in Puget Sound” — Stanford News
- 07/07/13: “Hi-tech ocean testing” — Stuff.co.nz
- 05/08/13: “Robotic Devices to Measure ‘Red Tides’ off Northeast” — LiveScience
- 02/13/13: “Could the sea be conscious? Research reveals how tiny plankton behave like a marine ‘megamind'” — DailyMail
- 02/11/13: “Researchers Reveal Marine Microbial Megamind” — Sci News
2010
- 02/24/10: “Underwater robot automates ocean testing” — Nature News
Bowers, H.A., Marin, R.III, Birch, J.A., Scholin, C.A., and Doucette, G.J. (2016). Recovery and identification of Pseudo-nitzschia frustules from natural samples acquired using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP). Journal of Phycology, 52:135–140. http://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12369
Herfort, L., Seaton, C., Wilkin, M., Roman, B., Preston, C., Marin, R., Seitz, K., Smith, M., Haynes, V., Scholin, C., Baptista, A., Simon, H. (2016). Use of continuous, real-time observations and model simulations to achieve autonomous, adaptive sampling of microbial processes with a robotic sampler. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 14:50-67. http://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10069