What is it about?
This paper helps to develop a strategy for discriminating between pollen of various types found in the air. It is based on the measurement of light emission from a variety of biochemicals (including chlorophyll) that are found in pollen (and spores and bacteria).
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Why is it important?
Ireland currently makes no pollen count measurements of its own because of the labour-intensive methods required. However the approach studied here could make the task considerably easier. Hence the general public could be provided with on the spot information rather than waiting for several days for the analysis of count data gathered in UK.
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This page is a summary of: Using spectral analysis and fluorescence lifetimes to discriminate between grass and tree pollen for aerobiological applications, Analytical Methods, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c3ay41093e.
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A new approach to bioaerosol monitoring in Ireland
EPA Climate Change Research Programme - CCRP Report 18 This major new publication was completed by Professor John Sodeau and his research team at the Centre for Research Atmospheric Chemistry (CRACLab) in University College Cork (UCC). The team used state of the art air quality instrumentation, to detect and quantify pollen, fungal spores, and bacteria that are all components of the air we breathe and are known as bio-aerosols.
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Centre for Research into Atmospheric Chemistry (CRACLab) at University College Cork, Ireland. Some of our activities on film.
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