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Teaching

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Field Data Collection with LiCOR

Equipment

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News

Sam, Riley, and Susan present posters at CaGIS

Sam, Riley, and Susan head to CaGIS in St. Louis

Monday, September 14, 2026
Sam Taylor, Riley Pacer, and Dr. Meerdink headed to the 2026 Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) conference in St. Louis, where the theme was "Cartographer in the Loop: Balancing technological innovation with human expertise". We presented our posters and enjoyed the Geo-Resolution conference.
Taylor wins poster competition

Sam Taylor wins 1st Place in the Geo-Resolution Conference's Student Poster Competition

Monday, September 14, 2026
Sam Taylor brings home 1st place and $1000 for this poster titled "The Water is Getting Warmer: Spatiotemporal Water Quality Trends from the Multi-decadal Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project (CLAMP)" for the 2026 Geo-Resolution's Student Poster Competition. Hosted at Saint Louis University, the 2026 Geo-Resolution conference had the theme “Securing the Future with Geospatial.”
Figure 1 from Chan et al. 2026 Ecology Article

New Lab Publication: Cicadas are declining due to century-old forest removal

Friday, September 4, 2026
Check out our the new publication that was developed in collaboration with friends in Biology where we used old air photos to determine areas that retained or lost forest over the century and presence of cicadas: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.70487

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