Applying Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology
to insect population dynamics
A significant component of my time at PSU has included applying space technology in the form of the Global Position System (GPS) to insect population dynamics and related issues which can benefit from the speed and/or accuracy of spatial (coordinate) referencing.  Because of my experience using GPS I am often given opportunity to participate in a variety of research, conservation and educational efforts.  The following list displays several of these projects and provides links giving some detail about each.

Colorado potato beetle sampling
(This highlights my disseration work in potatoes)
1996
1997
1999
2000
Education, university PSU Insect Taxonomy course
PSU Population Dynamics course
Graduate research mapping a research plot
Education, elementary and high school Bug Camp for Kids
Food and Agricultural Sciences Institute 
Conservation / biodiversity BioBlitz, 4-5 June 1999
Biological control of weeds Purple loosestrife at Millbrook marsh
Long-term ecological research Oaks and insects

Because of this emphasis on applying GPS (space technology) to insect issues part of my funding at PSU has come through a fellowship awarded by the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (NASA). 
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