UIC team to protect US Navy divers with AI

Researchers have been awarded a two year grant of $725,000 from the US Office of Naval Research for the project, which could help to improve understanding of the health risks that exist for sailors when conducting underwater duties, such as fleet maintenance and repairs or research and rescue missions.

Current water testing technologies typically rely on lab-based analysis of samples and scientists knowing which microbes to screen, but the exact condition of coastal water at specific times is hard to predict due to dynamic weather, currents, water temperatures and pollution.

“By the time a water sample arrives at a lab and is tested, the conditions may have changed,” said co-principal investigator Dr Samuel Dorevitch, associate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at UIC’s School of Public Health.

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