The Movement & Dispersal NCERA-148 site has moved... http://ncera148.psu.edu/index.htm Over the years, we've tried lots of collecting methods to track the movement & dispersal of insects, birds, bats, even micro-organisms such as fungi in the atmosphere. Some from the ground looking up with radar (left), ground truthing with tetroons (right) Some bringing samples back to earth by piloting from the ground. (What a job! Getting paid for working with model airplanes!!) Although you might wish for a strong wind to displace the stench of the stockyards, this truck-mounted stable fly sampling system might have trouble doing its job. Of course, some methods were very labor intensive, such as this whitefly sampling rig under the grueling Arizona sun (sacrifices to our science) and not all experiments succeed... Still, it's been and continues to be a great run...fascinating research with great people!! 1996 in Tucson, University of Arizona 1999 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh 2000 at Michigan State University in East Lansing Go now to NCERA-148's new home http://ncera148.psu.edu/index.htm
Last updated 5 January 2009 If you have questions about the former site that are not answered on the new one, contact Gail Kampmeier at gkamp[at]uiuc.edu Photos of people at meetings by Gail Kampmeier; other photos submitted by respective research projects at University of Arizona, Cornell University, Kansas, and USDA-ARS at College Station, TX

The Movement & Dispersal

NCERA-148 site has moved...

http://ncera148.psu.edu/index.htm

Over the years, we've tried lots of collecting methods to track the movement & dispersal of
insects, birds, bats, even micro-organisms such as fungi in the atmosphere.

Some from the ground looking up with radar (left), ground truthing with tetroons (right)

radar for detecting migrating biota tetroon ground truthing results of radar echos

Some bringing samples back to earth by piloting from the ground.
(What a job! Getting paid for working with model airplanes!!)

model airplane with net collector for leafhopper sampling model airplane collecting fungal spores

Although you might wish for a strong wind to displace the stench of the stockyards,
this truck-mounted stable fly sampling system might have trouble doing its job.

truck nets used to trap stable flies in stockyards