mander
08-27-2006, 10:24 PM
Greetings,
I am writing to call your attention to a project that would benefit from the involvement of science teachers throughout the midwest and mid-atlantic states. We are constructing a network of teachers to participate in the Great Labor Day Mosquito Count, a large-scale program to monitor mosquito populations throughout the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. Our aim is to track the course of an invading mosquito as it spreads northward from the Southeast, where it is already well established.
We distribute egg trap kits for students, who set the traps at their residences and return them to us after a standard period of time. We pay the shipping costs. Teachers coordinate this effort, and we provide web-based curriculum materials on mosquitoes and ecology, and try to keep the students informed about each step we take in processing the egg samples, identifying species, and analyzing data. This is an unusual opportunity for students to be involved in a large-scale scientific research project that is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health.
I am writing to you because your area is important for us to cover. Perhaps you can help us in our effort to get the word out to other teachers in your region. Our most recent sampling effort involved over 40 groups, with about 1000 traps; we hope to expand this to over 100 participating groups.
For more information, please see http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/tlivdahl/mcmain.html
If you're interested, please reply directly to me at this email address: tlivdahl@clarku.edu
Many thanks! We hope you'll be able to join our project.
Todd Livdahl
Professor of Biology
Clark University
Worcester MA 01610
508 793-7514
I am writing to call your attention to a project that would benefit from the involvement of science teachers throughout the midwest and mid-atlantic states. We are constructing a network of teachers to participate in the Great Labor Day Mosquito Count, a large-scale program to monitor mosquito populations throughout the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. Our aim is to track the course of an invading mosquito as it spreads northward from the Southeast, where it is already well established.
We distribute egg trap kits for students, who set the traps at their residences and return them to us after a standard period of time. We pay the shipping costs. Teachers coordinate this effort, and we provide web-based curriculum materials on mosquitoes and ecology, and try to keep the students informed about each step we take in processing the egg samples, identifying species, and analyzing data. This is an unusual opportunity for students to be involved in a large-scale scientific research project that is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health.
I am writing to you because your area is important for us to cover. Perhaps you can help us in our effort to get the word out to other teachers in your region. Our most recent sampling effort involved over 40 groups, with about 1000 traps; we hope to expand this to over 100 participating groups.
For more information, please see http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/tlivdahl/mcmain.html
If you're interested, please reply directly to me at this email address: tlivdahl@clarku.edu
Many thanks! We hope you'll be able to join our project.
Todd Livdahl
Professor of Biology
Clark University
Worcester MA 01610
508 793-7514