Imaging of temperature distributions over flow-exposed aquatic surfaces

Commercially available thermal cameras cannot measure under water. This limits our capability of studying temperature distribution and dynamics of light-exposed surfaces of submersed living structures (e.g. sessile organisms, biofilms and sediments).

I will develop a novel thermal imaging method to overcome this limitation by combining hyperspectral imaging with novel, referenced temperature-sensitive micro- and nanoparticles that can be deposited onto the sample of interest.

I will further develop multi-analyte sensors for simultaneous read-out of temperature with i.e. dissolved oxygen (O2) or pH, by combining different sensor chemistries with different spectral emission in particles that can be monitored by hyperspectral imaging for multi-analyte read-out along with additional structural information of the sample (e.g. chlorophyll pigments of photosynthetic organisms/systems) .