Tools of the Trade in 2023

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.

Patricia Fraino describes how principal component analysis can be used to understand data in the Earth and environmental sciences.

Natalia López-Figueroa explains how upside-down jellyfish populations can be used as bioindicators of coastal water quality.

Rohan Subba explains how changes in foraminifera pores can be used to understand marine oxygen levels.

Alexander Cotrina Sánchez explains how TreeTalker can be used to track forest phenology

Isamar Cortés discusses how Python-based open-source software can be used to process satellite data.

Margaret Cramm explains how quantitative stable isotope probing is used to understand microbial activities in the environment.

Igor Pessoa describes how past environmental conditions can be inferred by measuring trace metals in coral skeletons.