Pavlova is a Russian speleologist, or a scientist studying caves, and she was on a mission to map caves in the region. Dimas was enlisted to provide local knowledge and experience. The two joined ...

Pavlova is a Russian speleologist, or a scientist studying caves, and she was on a mission to map caves in the region. But, she needed the help of a local who knew the rocky caverns inside and out.

Using the information collected during that fieldwork, she is building a publicly accessible inventory of fluorescence fingerprints to help provide an additional layer of information to the ...

Undergraduate student Anna Van Der Weide is building a public database of these spectral fingerprints, adding a new layer of chemical information to traditional cave maps. This work could help paint a ...