FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY: A SENSITIVE TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING LAND-USE AND CLIMATIC REGION EFFECTS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WATER-EXTRACTABLE SOIL ORGANIC MATTER

Fluorescence spectroscopy: A sensitive tool for identifying land-use and climatic region effects on the characteristics of water-extractable soil organic matter

Water-extractable organic matter (WEOM) is an indicator of active and labile pools of soil organic matter (SOM).Land-use is expected to have a major effect on SOM, yet the effects of different land-uses on WEOM are not well understood.Reported trends in the changes in water-extractable organic C (WEOC) concentrations following changes in land-use s

read more



Role of nanophotonics in the birth of seismic megastructures

The discovery of photonic crystals 30 years ago in conjunction with research advances in plasmonics and metamaterials, has inspired the concept of decameter scale metasurfaces, coined seismic metamaterials for an enhanced control of surface (Love and Rayleigh) and bulk (shear and pressure) elastodynamic waves.These powerful mathematical tools of co

read more