Lab News

01/19/23: Cool dataset encompassing various ecosystem functions of several land-use types at Blandy Experimental Farm, from Kelsey Huelsman's master's work: Soil and plant-based ecosystem functions dataset of three land-use types in northwestern Virginia

01/18/23: Howie was quoted in USA Today, weighing in on the role plants play in absorbing excess CO2 from the atmosphere: "[Vegetation is] not even close to taking back up all the carbon dioxide we’re putting in the atmosphere". Fact check: Plants cannot absorb all the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere

01/16/23: New paper out in Frontiers in Remote Sensing from lab member Kelsey Huelsman's PhD work. Check it out: Spectral variability in fine-scale drone-based imaging spectroscopy does not impede detection of target invasive plant species