Small business partnership leads to big advances in water quality monitoring

April 22, 2021

Sea Grant is partnering with Swift Engineering on the development of a buoy like none before. Meet Kelp – a remote, self-powered buoy for water quality monitoring.

Joined through NOAA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program, Sea Grant is helping Swift Engineering deploy and test Kelp in different environments for a variety of purposes. Check out this multimedia feature to learn more about Sea Grant and Swift’s partnership on Kelp.

Credits: Produced by Hallee Meltzer. Images and videos provided by Costas Soler and Swift Engineering. Song: That Moment by Tomas Skyldeberg (Adobe Stock). Sound effects by InspectorJ, Squashy555, and Amholma (freesound.org).

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