Spencer Eusden ’12 monitoring plants in a University of Idaho lab
A research project that Spencer Eusden ’12 worked on his senior year at Bowdoin has culminated in a publication in New Phytologist, a prominent academic journal that covers developments in plant science.
Eusden worked with a team of four researchers from the University of Idaho and biology professor Barry Logan, who is also Bowdoin’s associate dean for academic affairs. Together they discovered that a long-distance laser can remotely sense whether plants are under stress. Their findings could potentially have a big impact on agriculture by reducing farmers’ chemical and water use, as well as further our understanding of how plants cope with environmental change.