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Going Green – Lighting Designing for Horticulture

SunTracker Technologies Senior Scientist, Ian Ashdown, will be presenting at the upcoming IES Toronto Section on Feb 17, 2021 “Going Green – Lighting Designing for Horticulture” Synopsis Ian Ashdown, P. Eng. (Ret.), FIES The future of food security in Canada is in greenhouses and vertical farms – controlled environments where unseasonable...

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Ian Ashdown Guest Lectures at Carnegie Mellon University

Ian Ashdown, SunTracker’s Senior Scientist is honoured to be a guest lecturer on February 24, 2021 at Carnegie Mellon University. This course is funded by Illuminating Engineering Society. ies.org/lda/the-nuckolls-fund-distributes-230000/ Nuckolls Fund Grants: 20,000 to Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Architecture, “Shaping Light,”...

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Viral Misinformation

SunTracker Technologies Senior Scientist Ian Ashdown's article “Viral Misinformation”, has been featured on Inside Lighting Let’s Address Some Viral Misinformation False claims about UV-C seep into mainstream media....

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Spherical Irradiance and Aerosols

Lighting designers will be familiar with the illuminance of a planar surface, which is measured in lumens per square meter (or foot). The irradiance of a planar surface by a germicidal radiation source is conceptually the same, except that it is measured in watts per square meter (W/m2). Most designers, however, will not be familiar with the...

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