URAP

Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project asks, "What defines the "health" of an ecological community, and can the signatures of "health be detected from communities of insects and spiders? And to what extent is that signature captured across scales, from plants, on to imagery – drones, helicopters, and satellites? The work aims to show how...

Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project addresses dynamics of plant microbial communities under disease pressure through the study of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD) in Hawaiʻi. ROD is caused by two fungal pathogens, Ceratocystis lukuohia and C huliohia, which co- occur on Hawaiʻi Island. Fieldwork was conducted across an altitudinal gradient (from 100 to 1,800...

Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project seeks to further develop and apply a new method of collecting environmental DNA (eDNA) from forest ecosystems through the collection of rain water from tree canopy throughfall. This data will be used to make inferences about ecosystem health and the forest community’s resilience to species invasion by building...

Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Every biodiversity analysis starts with a species survey. However, biodiversity surveys often yield large numbers of specimens difficult to identify because the samples collected are too small, immature, or belong to species that have not yet been formally described. In this project, we focus on identifying species, especially spiders, herbivorous...