UCLA, NASA JPL use new instrument to shed light on plant fluorescence

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Ulli Seibt, Katja Grossmann and Jochen Stutz of the AOS department were featured today on the Daily Bruin for their work on an instrument that they hope will be able to monitor the health of plants over the entire Earth. In collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they are measuring the light chlorophyll emits during photosynthesis with an instrument they call a PhotoSpec.

Link to Daily Burin article