Edge of Space Drone

Teaching

Browse the GIS and remote sensing courses that Dr. Meerdink offers within the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability.

Field Data Collection with LiCOR

Equipment

Check out the equipment available in LOQATE for research. If interested in using this equipment, contact Dr. Susan Meerdink.

News

CLAMP sampling sites

Beverly Bishop and Lilliana Carreon join LOQATE through Group Creative Research by Undergraduates Fellowship

Monday, February 2, 2026
Lillie and Beverly will be working in the LOQATE Lab on an Office of Undergraduate Research GCRU Fellowship titled, "Exploring 25 years of water quality in the Iowa Great Lakes using data from the volunteer-led Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project (CLAMP)"
AGU 25

AGU 2025 a success for Riley, Jalissa, Sam, and Dr. Meerdink

Saturday, December 20, 2025
Riley Pacer, Jalissa Pirro, Sam Taylor, and Dr. Meerdink headed to New Orleans this year to present their research at the annual American Geophysical Union conference. It was a resounding success and we had a blast.
Application of Multiple Instance Adaptive Cosine Estimator (MI-ACE) to detect anthocyanin content

New Article: Remote Sensing of Endogenous Pigmentation by Inducible Synthetic Circuits in Grasses

Saturday, December 6, 2025
This manuscript describes the research initiated during Dr. Meerdink's postdoctoral work at the University of Florida as part of a DARPA project. Dr. Meerdink managed the UF team and adapted the Multiple Instance Adaptive Cosine Estimator (MI-ACE) to detect anthocyanin content.

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