Shown in the photo at right is Professor Peter Richter (left), Associate Director of the IICER, and
his colleagues from the Technical University of Budapest and CEAT Ltd., a private Hungarian
company, as they set up environmental monitoring instrumentation which has been developed in
cooperation with the IICER. Professor Richter’s group specializes in the remote sensing (in situ)
of air pollution using laser spectroscopy, in situ detection of hydrocarbon pollution in soils,
and detection of other types of soil pollution by measuring chlorophyll fluorescence as an
indication of environmental stress in plants. These instruments and the related new technologies
have been successfully used in large-scale demonstration projects in Hungary and Poland in conjunction
with the IICER.
Professor Richter has a joint appointment at the Technical University of Budapest
and at the IICER. (Dr. Richter received his M.S. degree in physics from the Florida State University.)
Shown in the smaller photo is a portable chlorophyll fluoro-meter that was developed in
Professor Richter’s laboratory in conjunction with the IICER.
This instrument is being used in a phytoremediation project in the heavy-metal contaminated
region of Katowice, Poland in collaboration with the Polish Institute for Ecology of Industrial
Areas. These projects are being conducted under the direction and supervision of Dr. J.
Michael Kuperberg and Mr. Laymon Gray of the IICER.
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