Researchers return to New York City next month to continue their study of insect populations in urban areas in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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Researchers return to New York City next month to continue their study of insect populations in urban areas in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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CALS Research, NCSU's insight:
"Applications are being accepted for a working group called the Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment, according to Your Wild Life, an ecological website hosted by North Carolina State University."
The Your Wild Life team leader is ecologist Dr. Rob Dunn. Here's his call to practitioners & professionals: "The Basics: We need your help. We are organizing the first working group aimed at understanding the evolutionary biology of the built environment—our bedrooms, our houses, our backyards and our cities. This working group will occur June 10 – 14, 2013, in Durham, North Carolina. We are now inviting applications for participants in the working group."
Interested in participating? Visit
Dr. Dunn also blogs at Scientific American -- here's one of his latest posts: http://www.robrdunn.com/2013/01/11-ways-to-avoid-answering-a-question-a-year-in-review/
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CALS Research, NCSU's insight:
The Citizen Science research team, The Wildlife of Your Body, seeks participants for a new project on the Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment.
Says Dr. Dunn: "We’d like to convene a diverse group of scientists and practitioners at various stages in their careers, from graduate students and post-docs to senior scientists, representing an array of disciplines including the organismal -ologies (e.g. microbiology, entomology, etc.), engineering, architecture, anthropology, evolution, genetics, bioinformatics, art and design. We want to be inclusive of any field that you can convince us has something to bear on studying evolution in the built environment."
Apply here, soon! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dERTb2l5ZmlaVW95a0tUNUlkdTYyRmc6MQ
Sponsored by a partnership between the Sloan Foundation and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. Project Leaders: Jonathan Eisen, Rob Dunn, Kerry Kinney and Craig McClain Delete the scoop?
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"Biologists are starting to explore the woolly ecosystems in our homes and hospitals, and figuring out how they can make us sick or keep us healthy. ...
"Most studies of microbes in the home have focused on a particular location, such as the shower curtain or the hot-water heater. Now North Carolina State ecologist Rob Dunn aims to survey what’s living on everything—from pillowcases to refrigerators—in thousands of U.S. residences.
"Last fall Dunn began his “Wildlife of Our Homes” project with a pilot study in which 40 volunteers swabbed eight locations in their houses and mailed back the samples.... Delete the scoop?
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Rob Dunn's YourWildlife.org Team finishes collecting ants as part of his cool citizen science project, this time in the Big Apple! Check out the photos & blog at http://www.YourWildlife.org
Photo: Courtesy of Benoit Guenard.
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CALS Research, NCSU's insight:
Biologist, Dr. Rob Dunn, of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NC State University, reflects on a year's worth of blogs in Scientific American.
Dr. Dunn runs the project, The Wildlife of Your Body
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"This is a confession. I started out as a respectable sort of ecologist studying rain forests and then at some point my road turned and I ended up where I am today, lost among the belly buttons." Ecologist, Rob R. Dunn talks about The Belly Button Project, part of his research on The Wildlife of Your Body ... It's a Citizen Science project, and you can join! Check out the web site at: and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YourWild_Life Delete the scoop?
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Oct. 25, 2012 | Thursday, 6:30pm
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"When Sandy whipped through the Mid-Atlantic, also swept through an NCSU research project collecting data on NYC insects. Researchers return to the storm-ravaged region shortly. Ecologists Amy Savage & Elsa Youngsteadt placed sticky card traps, data loggers & other measuring devices in NYC park trees. Youngsteadt was studying how urban warming affects arthropods (scale insects, leaf hoppers, caterpillars). Savage was studying the ecology of Manhattan’s ants."
Both researchers are members of the team of Your Wild Life, from the lab of Dr. Rob R. Dunn in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NCSU. You'll find their profiles here:
http://www.yourwildlife.org/about-us/
Read the story at:
http://bulletin.ncsu.edu/2013/02/insects/