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“Pamela” makes studying the ocean easy

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DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
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NTNU biology and cybernetics researchers have built a robot that allows them to sample everything from microplastic to salmon lice densities.

“Pamela” is an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) developed as an entrepreneurial idea at NTNU for sampling a variety of surface water particles, from microplastic to plankton to salmon lice. The USV is a joint effort by an interdisciplinary team – Andrea Faltynkova, a PhD candidate at the Department of Biology, and Artur Zolich, a postdoc at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics.

Faltynkova studies microplastics in the ocean. Microplastics are bits of plastic smaller than 5 mm, which is roughly the size of the end of a pencil. While researchers know that microplastics can have negative effects on marine or freshwater organisms, there’s less known about how they affect human health. But studying microplastics is a challenge because of the nature of the substance itself, she says.

DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2022/07/pamela-makes-studying-the-ocean-easy-and-affordable/
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