Hastings Natural History Reservation

07 Jun, 03 PM - 13 Jun, 11 PM

Areas: Behind Robertson House by water tank, along Robertson Creek, Poison Oak Hill, areas along Arnold Cabin road. Facilities: small shed behind classroom building. Will collect samples of plants commonly found in wood rat houses for extraction of volatiles and samples of wood rat sleeping nest material for extraction of volatiles and Berlese extraction of ectoparasites. Will place activated charcoal strips (contained in small screen envelope securely fastened to an 8 inch spike pushed into sticks above sleeping nest) to detect nature of volatiles present in nest area, These will be collected after a week. Other spikes to have iButton data loggers (like Walt uses) for long term recording of temperature and humidity near nest securely attached. Note: I have used the charcoal strips at both Hastings and the Sonoma site successfully. The rats leave them alone and the volatiles are collected and identified on mass spec. Will retrieve iButtons from Hastings (and Tresch Ranch) stickhouses that were deployed 11 months ago, down load and reprogram them and add iButtons to additional houses.

Visit #12749 @Hastings Natural History Reservation

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Under Project # 1668 | Research

Vassar College - Biology

faculty - Vassar College

Reservation Members(s)

Richard Hemmes Jun 7 - 13, 2007 (7 days)
Group of 2 Undergraduate Student Jun 7 - 13, 2007 (7 days)

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Ranch House 3 Jun 7 - 13, 2007