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A Day in the Life of a Sea Ice Ecologist

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Dr. Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen, sea ice ecologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, recently completed a field campaign in which he and his team collected data and cores from sea ice. The photos below present a day’s work sampling the sea ice near Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland. Read more about this research… At the first look, not…

Exploring the Black (and Blue) Holes of the Bahamas

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

On the central and western side of the island of South Andros in the Bahamas, one can find a series of cavern systems formed in the limestone rock platforms that comprise most of the islands. These submerged cave systems are commonly referred to as Blue or Black Holes. Blue Holes are horizontal caves, often with…

Turn Ons and Turn Offs

Monday, October 5th, 2009

The LI-1400 Datalogger is often used for collecting environmental data using a variety of LI-COR Biosciences sensors. These include the LI-190 Quantum Sensor, the LI-192 Underwater Quantum Sensor, the LI-193 Spherical Quantum Sensor, and the LI-200 Pyranometer, among others. You can either program their LI-1400 to collect data automatically or set it up to collect…

It’s Pyranometer Calibration Season

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

pThe LI-200 Pyranometer Calibration schedule will be reaching its annual suspension on October 1st, 2011 and continuing through until February 28th, 2012. LI-COR encourages our customers to return their LI-200 Pyranometer Sensors for recalibration (suggested every 2 years) between the months of March and September. Why? Because pyranometer sensors need to be calibrated outdoors in…

Download Sensor Calibration Certificates

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

LI-COR is pleased to announce that Light Sensor calibration data are now available online through the Technical Resources Library. Calibration certificates for every Quantum, Pyranometer, and Photometric sensor ever made are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The calibration certificate is delivered to your computer as a PDF for easy saving and…