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Published online 23 January 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030120-6
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Robot gliders to watch red tides
Winged underwater vehicles could forecast toxic blooms of plankton.
Winged robots were released into the Gulf of Mexico last week to help forecast and study red tides - the mysterious blooms of toxic plankton that kill fish, poison food and choke swimmers.
This is the test phase of a year-long project to follow red tides using autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs - a first for ocean scientists.
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