Jalissa Pirro and Sam Taylor were invited to spend the week at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. They are getting facility tours, participating in PlantCV workshops, and sharing their research, which will be incorporated into PlantCV.

Congratulations to Jalissa Pirro and Mainul Islam for being finalists in the 2025 Capture Your Research Competition! Vote now for the People's Choice Award.

“The bur oak is an icon for Iowa,” says Mainul Islam, a doctoral student in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES). “If you go to any park or backyard here, you will see at least one bur oak tree.”

This summer, Nina Osborne participated in a growth chamber experiment led by Dr. Dannenberg and Dr. Meerdink. Students used the LICOR and spectrometer to measure the response of bur oak leaves to different levels of temperature, precipitation, and carbon dioxide.

A H M Mainul Islam attended the ESA's annual conference in Baltimore to share his research titled, "Exploring the impact of Bur Oak Blight (BOB) on the Photosynthetic Capacity of Bur Oaks".

Sixteen undergraduate students from across the country gathered for the 2025 Edge of Space Academy, an immersive, hands-on research experience focused on space-based instrumentation for observing Earth and space.

On July 12, 2025, Meerdink and Pirro represented LOQATE at the BioBlitz by taking the drone and thermal camera to the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory.

On July 1st, the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) was launched. Check it out: https://youtu.be/gR7xr4DkTcg

This year's Iowa City Citywide Garage Sales will take place on June 20-21, and Dr. Meerdink has volunteered to map the address locations for the garage sales to make it easier for shoppers to find those deals.

Congratulations to Nina Osborne and Isaac Young for winning the Nicholas L. Paape Memorial Scholarship. This award is for meritorious students pursuing a degree in Geographic Information Sciences.