Dr. Verity developed hi-end image processing tools that allow for automated, as well as manual analysis techniques to be applied to large sequences of images in the least amount of time possible. The Verity Lab has a long history of developing software for the automatic enumeration of bacteria, plankton, and other organisms, which makes the processing of multiple images fast and removes the aspect of human bias in counting.

Carbon from non-living sources, e.g. detritus, has confounding effects on direct measurements of carbon from phytoplankton. No satisfactory techniques have been developed which permit direct measurement of the carbon content of detritus, so Dr. Verity adapted 3D visualization techniques to the study of plankton.