September 2025

Oceanography | Vol. 38, No. 3

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When outfitted with a groundbreaking “laboratory in a can”

to sample environmental DNA, nimble robots like Monterey

Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s long-range autonomous

underwater vehicle can expand monitoring of ocean health.

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