Media and news coverage about how insects are entrapped by light. The work was picked up by NYT, BBC, National Geographic and several other global news outlets. It helped highlight the issues created by light pollution. Several YouTubers also covered… Read More »Moth Flight to Light Media
We are working with CIEE Monteverde to use the pLAM to monitor animal behavior as part of a Tropical Field Ecology Course. Undergraduate students set up tests to see how different conditions alter activity. One project looked at how the… Read More »Tropical ecology workshop CIEE
We visited Monteverde to test the pLAM in June 2021 with a team of undergrads Dr. Jamie Thebald and Dr. Akito Kawahara. Using the portable activity dectors, we were able to get activity data for a range of insects.