Tools of the Trade

Leah Brinch-Iversen explains how lab-on-chip sensors can be used to monitor the deep ocean.

Estel Font explains how underwater robotic gliders can be used to monitor the changing ocean.

Emily Fedders explains how Gamma Portable Radar Interferometery can be used to estimate strain in sea ice.

Mario Casado Díez explains how networks of smart photometers can be used to monitor light pollution in the night sky.

Rahul Dey describes how high-resolution digital imaging of ice core layers can be used to infer paleoclimatic changes.

Laura Wainman explains how drones can be used to sample the composition and dynamics of volcanic plumes.

Falk Oraschewski describes how phase-sensitive radio echo sounding can be used to measure melting at the base of ice shelves and englacial ice crystal orientations.

Jacob VanderRoest outlines the use of pyrocosms to identify specific molecules in burned soil from various ecosystems.

Josefa Sepúlveda-Araya explains how microgravity surveys can be used to identify early warning signs of volcanic eruptions.

Monica Alejandra Gomez Correa describes how the ostracod fossil record provides insight into changes in environmental conditions and their impact on marine ecosystems.

Phuping Sucharitakul explains how artificially aged microplastics can accurately reproduce the properties of microplastics in the environment.

Hao Li explains how groundwater and ice core samples are dated using krypton-81 atom trap trace analysis.

Lisbett Materano highlights how urban dust samples can be used to identify environmental and health risks from air pollution.

Sandy Castellano explains how multiparameter meters are a quick and cost-effective method to monitor water quality in estuaries.

Hao Ding outlines the use of compact inverse Compton scattering sources to study the characteristics of radionuclides that can damage the environment.

Ana Cristina Vasquez discusses how Cu isotopes can trace metal pollution sources from anthropogenic activities, such as urban pollution, traffic emissions, mining and smelting

Gebanruo Chen explains how tethered air balloons can take high-resolution and high-altitude water vapour measurements to give insights into the atmospheric water cycle

Sara Middleton explains how automated image segmentation can be used to rapidly identify objects and regions of interest to enable the monitoring of vegetation changes.

Yingchu Shen discusses the use of deep-sea stony coral geochemistry as a long-term record of ocean temperature, acidity, and nutrient levels.

Angelique Rosa Marín discusses how benthic foraminifera can be used as bioindicators for assessing water quality and monitoring coral reef health.