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Testing, Testing

Victoria McGruer, a Northeastern University student working in the lab of WHOI biologist Don Anderson, preps and tests ESPs (Environmental Sample Processors) in the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems building. ESPs are robotic laboratories that detect cells and toxins of harmful algae in New England waters. This one, “ESPdon,” named for Anderson, was moored off Casco Bay, Maine, in May-June 2015, while “ESPjake,” named for former Associate Dean Jake Pierson, is currently detecting a bloom along Maine’s coast. Visitors to the Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9 will have a chance to see an ESP up close.(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)