Living Solar Panels

Living Solar Panels aims to establish a truly green electricity source...from living prickly pear cacti! @ChesneyCharlie's @UCSC @UCSC_ENVS PhD research project

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Harvesting #electricity from cacti?? But why? And HOW?? Follow this page to learn more about #photosynthesis, #renewableenergy, and #innovation 😎

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Living Solar Panels x @kzsc ‘Eco Hour’🌵🎙️

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Throwback to these cookie creations that the lab did a while ago :D They’re uncanny, no? 🍪🌵

[Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, PhD @birdmapper]

Meet the “extended” Conservation Ecology Lab @UCSC_ENVS @ucsc. These are all amazing folks who do work under the supervision of, or in collaboration with, lab members. I feel so lucky to be mentoring and collaborating with all of them 🙌🏽 #profeorgullosa #NewPI

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Our resident Ph.D. Candidate Charlie is at #ESA2024 giving a poster talk on using cactus electricity to measure CAM photosynthesis! Go Charlie 😎🌵

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@JustinCLuong Our resident PhD candidate Charlie Chesney will be there!

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Get ready. 🥤

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Happy 7/11 Day 🥤7️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ otw to the nearest 7/11 to fill up a cactus pot with slurpee 😎

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Happy 7/11 Day 🥤7️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ otw to the nearest 7/11 to fill up a cactus pot with slurpee 😎

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New additions to our farm plot. These will act as markers for each of our cactus and as little nicknames (they’re named after Loik-Holl lab members!! 😁)

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Motivation for the week! Good luck out there with summer jobs, summer school, or even just summer fun!
#MotivationMonday #UCSCLibrary #Summer

[Basin & Range Watch @BasinRange]

4,200 Joshua trees are scheduled to be removed are replaced by solar panels for the Aratina Solar Project near Boron, CA in June of this year. They will not be salvaged but funds based on the size of the tree will be placed in a mitigation bank.

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Woah, a weather station :0 but our micro-weather station is coming soon so get ready… #ucscfarm

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Cactus roots go craaaaaazy 😲🫨🌵

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@JustinCLuong Yayy! Go Peter!! 🍌🐌

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(I know it’s November) but some spooky activities happened in the lab this Halloween season 🙀🌵🎃

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New school year, new cladode🌵😎
#ucsc #classof2027

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Fun things are coming… or should I say printing… 🍌🐌🖨
#3Dmodeling #3Dprinting #autoCAD

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“Nopales Printed Circuit Board”?!
Now this seems perfect for our electrical engineering team 👀🌵⚡️
https://t.co/8UcCFLmlBA

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Things are coming together… 👀
#3dprinted #weatherstation

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3D prints incoming… 👀