Movement & Dispersal News

In the News

Radar on Bees! On 2 February 2000, All Things Considered from National Public Radio aired a segment on Radar on Bees featuring Beth Capaldi of the University of Illinois. See CNN story or download pdf of article in Nature.

Dragonfly Migration Tracked with Tiny Radio Tags from National Geographic News 12 Oct 2005

The Basics

• How Insects Fly - Development of flight
• Weather glossary on-line
• Online Guide to Meteorology- the fundamental concepts of meteorology
• Online Guide to Remote Sensing
• Reading & Interpreting Weather Maps
• Weather-related Classroom Projects & Activities

Links to Movement & Dispersal-related Sites

• Aiding Migratory Whooping Cranes
• Cucurbit Downy Mildew Forecasting Program
• Dragonfly Migration Project
• Oregon Dragonfly Migration Reports
• Pollen Forecasts, including mountain cedar, ragweed & other allergens for Oklahoma & Texas
• Local dispersal & Migration by Insect Pests and their importance in IPM strategies
• Whitefly flight behavior
• North American Blue Mold Forecast - daily forecasts
• Monarch Watch
• Long distance movement of Russian wheat aphid
• VegEdge - Vegetable IPM resource for the Midwestern United States
• TREWS - The Radar Entomology Web Site
• Oklahoma Mesonet

Research Projects & Other News

• 1995 Research Reports to NCR-148
• 1996 Migrant - Newsletter of NCR-148
• 1996 Research Reports to NCR-148
• 1997 Research Reports to NCR-148
• 1998 Research Reports to NCR-148
• 1999 Research Reports to NCR-148
• 2000 Research Reports to NCR-148

Publications

• Flow of Life in the Atmosphere: An Airscape Approach to Understanding Invasive Organisms
• Migration: the Biology of Life on the Move
• Insect Migration: Tracking Resources through Space and Time
• The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution
• The Migration Systems of Helicoverpa punctigera (Wallengren) and Helicoverpa armigera ...in Australia (Ph.D. thesis, University of Queensland)