Mobile device by UCLA enables easy prediction and control of harmful algal blooms

(Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics) UCLA researchers have developed an inexpensive and portable device that can analyze water samples immediately, which would provide marine biologists with real-time insight about the possibility that the algal blooms could occur in the area they're testing. That, in turn, would allow officials who manage coastal areas to make better, faster decisions about, for example, closing beaches and shellfish beds before algal blooms cause serious...