Subsea Imagingbe used in cleaning up oils spills. said Resolution Optics could participate “by virtue of how we “Our microscope can be deployed at any depth, and the ma- do our images. We are capable of distinguishing algae at vari-jority of oil is under water so that is where we would like to ous points of its lifecycle and when algae cycles are at their go,” he said. maximum and loaded with lipids. We can create a customized Another major application for the submersible microscope software to tell us the optimum time to get maximum yield is identifying harmful algae blooms. from algae which currently is done bio-chemically.”“That’s basically deploying the microscope and using the The logical step for the company at this point is to partner image feed for water monitoring. Early detection for harmful with bio-fuel company, said Jones, “to give us the opportunity algae could be done in municipal water systems, lakes and riv- to go an image and verify that what we are capable of doing ers or offshore but basically in any body of water where you matches what they are doing bio-chemically.”would normally take a water sample,” Jones said. Jones said the company’s main markets for its submersible There is still a manual aspect to identify what is in the data microscope are Asia Paci