New publication from Aravind
A. Harikumar, P. D’Odorico and I. Ensminger, “A Fuzzy Approach to Individual Tree Crown Delineation in Uav Based Photogrammetric Multispectral Data,” IGARSS 2020 doi: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324303. Nice job Aravind!
Bio312 ‘Lab-in-a-bag’ lets students study plants from home
When all courses where moved to online classes, we decided to let students do at last a couple of the Bio312 Plant Physiology experiments from home
Congratulations Dr. Wong: Chris defends his PhD thesis
After his research seminar and final oral exam, Chris follows the UTM Biology tradition and adds his signature on one of the stem discs in the UTM Biology hallway. Well done! Chris successfully defended his PhD thesis, but due to the Covid 19 situation, this was a very different event. Just a few days before …
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Chris will defend his thesis on March 18
Chris Wong will defend his PhD thesis on March 18, 2020. The public talk starts at 13:00 in DV3129. Chris Wong will defend his PhD thesis on March 18, 2020. The public talk with the title “Multiscale assessment of phenology and productivity of Northern forests” starts at 13:00 in DV3129. Hope to see many of …
Ariana defended her Masters Thesis
Ariana Besik defended her Masters thesis today: Intraspecific Variation in Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Pigment Composition in White Spruce (Picea glauca): New Physiological Traits for Identifying Trees Better Adapted to New Climates. Congratulations, well done.
Ensminger lab successful with another Genome Canada Project
With the SpruceUp project the Ensminger lab is now involved in a second new large-scale collaborative research grant funded by Genome Canada
New Publication co-authored by Chris, Ingo in PNAS
Chris and Ingo collaborated with colleagues from the University of North Carolina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University of Barcelona, NASA and the U.S. Forest Service on a project aiming to assess phenology in conifers using remote sensing. On Monday their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
Gamon JA, Huemmrich KF, Wong CYS, Ensminger I, Garrity S, Hollinger DY, Noormets A, Peñuelas J (2016) A remotely sensed pigment index reveals photosynthetic phenology in evergreen conifers PNAS 113, 1387-1392. doi:10.1073/pnas.1606162113
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/46/13087.full.pdf