Instrumentation for Agronomy and Soil Science
Qubit Systems offers field-based instruments (ROX and FLOX) for monitoring solar irradiance, solar reflection and solar-induced fluorescence. Read about recent advances in the field.
by Monika Kuzma 
Celebrating Women in Science
More decades ago than I care to remember I was teaching a course on the various uses of plants throughout history, and thought I'd liven things up with a class [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
Three COPS and still no Arrest to Climate Crisis
Hello, Hello, Hello... It's a Triple COP Year OK, if you didn't grow up in England, you might not get the joke. But the climate crisis is nothing to laugh [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
The Ig Nobel Art of Hindgut Breathing
Japanese Researchers get to the Bottom of a Respiratory Peculiarity The Ig Nobel Prize for Physiology was awarded recently to a group of Japanese researchers who, we presume, used novel [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
National Geographic… and VO2max?
National Geographic has always been a pillar of learning, used to prop up bookcases in student apartments throughout the world. But gone (almost) are the days of the print edition, [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
Kafka, Lennon, Warhol, Zappa… and Experimental Biology?
OK, I know that Kafka's The Metamorphosis is all about existential angst, loneliness and isolation, but as a physiologist my main interest when reading it was how, and at which [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
VOCO – The Right Fit for Your Research
Measuring Cardiopulmonary Fitness - (and the Lack of it...) Every year I Race the Cat. That's not some bizarre pursuit of a furry feline but a brutal adventure-race triathlon in [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
Singing Fish and Coral Condoms. Earth Day 2024
Scientists are being increasingly inventive in the desperate race to preserve the degradation of ecosystems on this precious planet of ours. A recent story in the Guardian newspaper relates that [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
Putting Spring in your Research
Well, you could listen to the birdsong, absent for so many months, or to the monumental bore who insists on instructing you (despite your cavernous yawns) that Spring has arrived [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
Q-teach Packages for Biology Laboratory Education (not boring)
As profs in the teaching lab, we've all had that experience - the cerebral student from the University Chess Team complaining that experiments lack intellectual challenge. And if, like me, [...]
by Monika Kuzma 
Three Degrees Means Toast!
The Climate Crisis and Environmental Monitoring On November 20th, the United Nations annual Emissions Gap Report stated that the world faces between 2.5C (4.5F) and 2.9C (5.2F) of warming above [...]
by Monika Kuzma