The goal of the Biocomplexity Research Project is to develop and test, in the laboratory and in the field, an advanced instrumentation and computational modeling framework required to understand and predict the emission and transport of “Primary Biological Aerosol Particles” into the turbulent atmosphere. In this study we focus on pollen due, in part, to the pressing societal needs to understand pollen transport, and also because it offers the advantage that pollen from different plants differ morphologically allowing its sources and pathways to be identified.
This interdisciplinary project was recently initiated with the award of a 5 year grant from the National Science Foundation. The research is directed by six faculty members from several Engineering Departments who are also members of the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics.
Click here to visit the Biocomplexity Research Project website.
“It’s hard to say to a potential investor, ‘I’m going to go explore the ocean… we’ll probably make discoveries that will change the world some day, but I don’t know what they are.’ So, you end up doing shipwrecks.”
That’s how Dave Jourdan ’84 describes his career as a deep-sea ocean explorer.
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