Updates on research and publications
Comic Interpretation Bill Gates Tweet Popular Science Engineering Lightbulbs to Keep Insects Away CityLAB A new direction in disease prevention: lightbulbs Voice of America Science World Interview USC News Bright idea could save lives in developing countries Continue reading Coverage of Research on Configuring LEDs to Reduce Insect Attraction
3D Visualization Models as a Tool for Reconstructing the Historical Landscape of the Ballona Watershed Committee Chair: Travis Longcore | Committee Members: Yao-Yi Chiang, John Wilson Ever-increasing demand on Earth’s finite natural resources and land requires environmental planners to employ informed and successful management of environments. Historical resources enhance environmental management by providing information to … Continue reading MS Thesis Recreates Historical Topography of Lower Ballona Watershed
Longcore, T., Aldern, H. J. Eggers, S. Flores, L. Franco, E. Hirshfield-Yamanishi, L. Petrinec, W. Yan, and A. Barroso. 2015. Tuning the white light spectrum of LEDs to reduce attraction of nocturnal arthropods. Philosophical Transactions B doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0125. Artificial lighting allows humans to be active at night, but has many unintended consequences, including interference with ecological processes, disruption … Continue reading New paper: Tuning LEDs to Minimize Insect Attraction
A state-of-the-art environmental assessment of the Los Angeles Baldwin Hills is underway, led by Associate Professor Travis Longcore, research faculty with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute. The 18-month project is a cooperative effort for the Baldwin Hills Conservancy and theBaldwin Hills Regional Conservation Authority, with technical support from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Travis Longcore. Photo courtesy of Travis … Continue reading Spatial Scientist Brings New Tools to Classic Conservation Efforts in Baldwin Hills
Our Department of Defense Legacy Program Grant (Project 12-608) to develop a technique to sample DNA from live butterflies has wrapped up. The project was a collaboration with Dr. Jana Johnson at Moorpark College, Dr. Bob Wayne’s lab at UCLA, and a couple of groups working with endangered butterflies around the country. The objective of … Continue reading Project to Obtain Butterfly DNA through Wing Swabs Wraps Up
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