The goal of this project is to perform research and further the development of systems and sensors for marine biological, chemical, and physical observations. A variety of underwater systems are currently in development  including vertical profilers, towed plankton survey system, acoustic and video survey systems, web-based real-time data collection, and various internal laboratory measurement systems.

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Student Tasks and Responsibilities: Assisting researchers with data analysis, image processing and image analysis, instrument calibrations, mechanical design and assembly and web based applications. Programming in a PC environment using C/C++, PASCAL, Visual Basic, MATLAB, and Visual C++