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From Sea to Sky, Students Develop Tools for Improved Environmental

…on the presence of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane—DDT, a powerful insecticide—and other undersea pollutants. Instead of having to deploy individual buoys with sensors inside on a routine basis, their sponsor wanted one large system that would contain multiple buoys with sensors, reducing the down time required to collect the buoy, gather the information,…

A Year in Review: A Look Back as We Move Ahead

…of barrels at a DDT dumpsite off the Los Angeles coast. Now that the area has been extensively mapped, researchers are hopeful the data will inform the development of strategies to address potential impacts from the dumping. The power of philanthropy Research isn’t the only area in which the university…