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Drones help scientists check the health of Antarctic mosses, revealing climate change clues
Drones are helping scientists check the health of Antarctic mosses, revealing clues on the pace of climate change.
Read more in the Conversation
Plus here is the Youtube video
and if you want to read the paper
Malenovský Z, Lucieer A King DK, Turnbull JD & Robinson SA (2017) Unmanned aircraft system advances health mapping of fragile polar vegetation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 1842-1857
LIFT workshop - Jülich, Germany
Last year in November, our group led by Barry Osmond hosted a LIFT (light induced fluorescence transient) meeting in Wollongong. The second meeting was held in Germany hosted by the Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-2: Plant Sciences. The University of Wollongong, HRPPC at CSIRO in Canberra and the Forschungszentrum Jülich are developing protocols for measuring canopy photosynthesis using these new LIFT chlorophyll fluorometers.