SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL | Under Santa Cruz Wharf, a robot watches for algal blooms

UCSC researcher with FlowCytobot — UC Santa Cruz researcher Alexis Fischer and lab tech Kendra Negrey tinker with the Imaging FlowCytobot used to photograph algae organisms underwater and beneath the Santa Cruz Wharf. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Santa Cruz Sentinel

November 2018

The devastating effects of toxin-producing algae have been making headlines nationwide.

Now, a UC Santa Cruz research team has deployed algae-photographing robots to be on the lookout for the formation of algal blooms in the Monterey and San Francisco bays.