Andrew Laurence, 33, and Shannon Ferguson, 32, are forensic palynologists who specialize in the identification of pollen grains. They can extract the particles from almost anything — drug ...

Palynology is the study of pollen grains and other spores. I’d called Laurence after reading about a cold case : A woman was murdered in Baltimore County in 1976 and, nearly 40 years later ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery. To try to identify a teenage girl found slain in a western New York cornfield in 1979, investigators have ...

Automated palynology systems. Pollen analysis requires countless hours looking down a microscope, identifying and tallying pollen types. This is a major limiting factor in pollen-analysis efficiency.

Pollen Grains Preserve Clues About the Earth From the Time When an Asteroid Struck 66 Million Years Ago. Nature carried with it the traces of a past time, and every inch of its being revealed ...

Palynology collection. Palynology collection. An Eocene dinoflagellate, Impletosphaeridium, imaged at two different focal points. ... Pollen grains and spores are found in most sedimentary deposits ...

More information: Masoud A. Rostami et al, Deep learning for accurate classification of conifer pollen grains: enhancing species identification in palynology, Frontiers in Big Data (2025). DOI: 10 ...

Many doctors believe that the main reason for this is the size of the average pine pollen grains. At 60-to-100 microns, pine pollen is thought to be too large to enter the nasal passages and lungs ...

Sometimes, the daily pollen count reaches above 3,000 to 4,000 grains per cubic meters. Our record highest pollen count was 9,369 grains per cubic meter back on March 20, 2012.

Palynology is the field devoted to this botanical diversity. ... Pollen grains from hedgerow plants including hawthorn, blackthorn and bramble were intermingled with weeds such as black nightshade, ...

Deep learning for accurate classification of conifer pollen grains: enhancing species identification in palynology. Frontiers in Big Data , 2025; 8 DOI: 10.3389/fdata.2025.1507036 Cite This Page : ...