Sep 30, 2022 | Application, Applications, Color Measurement, Environmental & Microplastics, News, NIR
Congratulations to our third-place winner Ph.D. candidate Sofia Schirmer and Associate Professor Felipe Gawryszewski at Universidade de Brasília for their research on near-infrared reflectance in butterfly wings. This team has been studying butterflies in the Cerrados...
Jul 19, 2022 | Application, Applications, Atmospheric, Environmental & Microplastics, News
How to: Be Uninteresting About Atmospheric Optics When I was asked to do a piece for this month’s Marketing campaign, I decided to ask my kids what they thought I should write about. They hated all my ideas, including explaining why we see the colors in the sky that...
Jun 9, 2022 | Application, Applications, Biology, Environmental, Environmental & Microplastics, Solar SpectroRadiometry, SpectroRadiometry
Kyle McGaughy, Ahmad Abu Hajer, Edward Drabold, David Bayless, and M.Toufiq Reza Abstract Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) is a promising technology to convert wet wastes like septic tank wastes, or septage, to valuable platform chemical, fuels, and materials....
Feb 3, 2022 | Agriculture, Application, Applications, Biology, Color Measurement, Environmental, Environmental & Microplastics, Reflectance
Journal of Economic Entomology – Arjun Khadka, Sandra A Allan, Daniel Cho, Emma N I Weeks Abstract Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, negatively impacts the citrus industry as it transmits Candidatus Liberibacter spp., the causal agent of citrus...
Jan 28, 2022 | Application, Applications, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental, Environmental & Microplastics, UV-VIS Absorption
Emeka G. Nwoba, Tarannom Rohani, Mohammadjavad Raeisossadati, Ashiwin Vadiveloo, Parisa A.Bahri, Navid R.Moheimani Abstract Monochromatic blue and red wavelengths are more efficient for light to algal biomass conversion than full-spectrum sunlight. In this study,...
Oct 14, 2021 | Application, Applications, Biology, Environmental & Microplastics
Mark Helamieh, Annkathrin Gebhardt, Marco Reich, Friedericke Kuhn, Martin Kerner, Klaus Kümmerer Abstract The combined impact of temperature and light spectra on the fatty acid (FA) composition in microalgae has been sparsely investigated. The aim of this study was to...