Tools of the Trade by GeoLatinas

Tools of the Trade

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  Benthic foraminifera as bioindicators of coral reef health

  Angelique Rosa Marín discusses how benthic foraminifera can be used as bioindicators for assessing water quality and monitoring coral reef health.

  • Angelique Rosa Marín

  Tools of the Trade12 Jun 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Tracking vegetation changes with time series of satellite images

  Adriana Uscanga discusses the use of time series of satellite images to analyse changes in vegetation across large regions and timescales.

  • Adriana Uscanga

  Tools of the Trade2 Jun 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  InSAR and airborne LiDAR for monitoring slow vertical land motion

  Carolina Hurtado-Pulido explains how Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) can measure regional vertical land motion patterns.

  • Carolina Hurtado-Pulido

  Tools of the Trade31 May 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Quantifying the porosity of natural reservoirs with nuclear magnetic resonance

  Daniela Navarro-Perez explains how nuclear magnetic resonance can be used to assess the capacity of natural reservoirs to store fluids.

  • Daniela Navarro-Perez

  Tools of the Trade25 May 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Measuring soil CO₂ emissions with air-quality sensors

  Yulissa T. Perez Rojas explains how air-quality sensors can be repurposed as low-cost alternatives for measuring soil CO₂ fluxes from soil.

  • Yulissa T. Perez Rojas

  Tools of the Trade19 May 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Forward stratigraphic modelling to understand sedimentary system evolution

  Grisel Jiménez Soto discusses how forward stratigraphic models can simulate the various sedimentary processes that control the geometry and distribution of sedimentary layers.

  • Grisel Jiménez Soto

  Tools of the Trade21 Apr 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Upside-down jellyfish as bioindicators of anthropogenic disturbances in coastal ecosystems

  Natalia López-Figueroa explains how upside-down jellyfish populations can be used as bioindicators of coastal water quality.

  • Natalia B. López-Figueroa

  Tools of the Trade30 Mar 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Open-source software for geospatial analysis

  Isamar Cortés discusses how Python-based open-source software can be used to process satellite data.

  • Isamar M. Cortés

  Tools of the Trade1 Mar 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Using electrical currents to image submarine groundwater discharge

  Mariana Gómez-Nicolás describes how coastal groundwater discharge zones can be mapped with electrical resistivity.

  • Mariana Gómez-Nicolás

  Tools of the Trade13 Feb 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Monitoring coastal water quality with satellite data

  Ileana Callejas discusses how remote sensing can be used to monitor water quality in coastal regions,including tracking sewage plumes, algal blooms and oil spills.

  • Ileana Callejas

  Tools of the Trade12 Sep 2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Filling the deep-ocean data gap with benthic foraminifera

  Sofía Barragán-Montilla describes how microfossils of benthic foraminifera are used to understand the deep ocean.

  • Sofía Barragán-Montilla

  Tools of the Trade12 Sep 2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Understanding orebodies with hyperspectral images

  Rocío Vargas Soto discusses how hyperspectral imaging can be used to identify mineral resources.

  • Rocío Vargas Soto

  Tools of the Trade12 Sep 2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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  Tracing past volcanic activity with sedimentary Hg concentrations

  Andressa Nauter-Alves describes how analyzing mercury sediments is informative of volcanic activities in geological time.

  • Andressa Nauter-Alves

  Tools of the Trade12 Sep 2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment