hobart, tasmania
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Pale green microbial mat growing among moss, grasses, stones and leaf litter in alpine Tasmania.
Microbial mat in Alpine Tasmania Region, August 2026
Dozens of petri dishes spread across a dark laboratory bench, each holding a dry fragment of biological soil crust.
Jornada, NM dark crust samples. drying out in preparation for spectral measurements, May 2026
A wheeled-leg quadruped stands in a dark stone interior, its headlight throwing a beam across the rock wall.
Deep Robotics Quadruped exploring rocky cabin, 2026
Dark Nostoc thalli arranged on squares under deep violet ultraviolet illumination.
Nostoc commune UVA+UVB induction Pilot, 2025
A gloved hand holds a round-bottom flask of pale gold extract above a bin of sample vials.
First successful Scytonemin pigment extraction, 2025
Snow-patched rock cliffs above still water, faces coloured by orange crustose lichen.
Lichen off of the antarctic peninsula, 2024
The Spectrophage prototype set up on an office floor: a tripod-mounted sensor head above a black light-trapped dome unit, fibre optics running to a foam-lined transport case of electronics.
Spectrophage ultraviolet reflectance measuring instrument prototype, Oregon State University, June 2026
An operator at a benchtop microscope, its tablet display showing chains and clusters of Nostoc cells outlined by the imaging software.
Mutant Nostoc microscopic exploration of morphology post ultraviolet dose, Arizona State University, May–June 2026