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Scientists have deployed four underwater robotic Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) in the Bay of Fundy and the eastern Gulf of Maine. The ESPs count the Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP)-causing dinoflagellates, Alexandrium fundyense (aka New England red tide). The sensors test a critical hypothesis that A. fundyense cells originate in the Bay of Fundy and travel down the coast, resulting in shellfish toxicity in the Eastern Gulf of Maine. [Source: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science]
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