Tools of the Trade

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.

Adriana Uscanga discusses the use of time series of satellite images to analyse changes in vegetation across large regions and timescales.

Carolina Hurtado-Pulido explains how Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) can measure regional vertical land motion patterns.

Daniela Navarro-Perez explains how nuclear magnetic resonance can be used to assess the capacity of natural reservoirs to store fluids.

Yulissa T. Perez Rojas explains how air-quality sensors can be repurposed as low-cost alternatives for measuring soil CO₂ fluxes from soil.

Akshat Chulawat describes how graph theory can be used to predict the vulnerability of the built environment to wildfire.

Souleymane Diop explains how four-component radiometers can be used to assess the effects of conservation agriculture practices on albedo and heat flux.

Alba Rodriguez Padilla explains how airborne lidar can capture 3D submeter to tens of meters changes in surface topography caused by earthquake deformation.

Mackenzie Fiss explains how Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) is used for analyzing diverse dissolved organic matter mixtures, like those from salt marshes.

Grisel Jiménez Soto discusses how forward stratigraphic models can simulate the various sedimentary processes that control the geometry and distribution of sedimentary layers.

Menger Peng discusses the use of uncrewed surface vehicles to map glacial lake bathymetry.