Kennedy Whiters lives by "Do not fear failure; rather, fear not trying." She participated in the REALIZE REU when she was a junior at Albany State University. Kennedy performed research on methanogens, a type of anaerobic bacteria that consumes carbon dioxide and turns it into natural gas, which we can use as a source of energy in power plants. In this episode, she describes her experience working in the lab of Prof Annie Rowe, where she found the lab group to be a good source of positive support, like her family.
Raw data for: Siers, S.R., Mungaray, J.-C., Kastner, M. & Jayne, B.C. (2025) Hard to swallow: scaling relationships between the size of avian prey and the overall size and maximal gape of brown treesnakes. Ecology and Evolution (in revision). (BCJ corresponding author)
Data of monarchs subjected to righting response orientation trials under different artificial magnetic fields pre- and post-overwintering cold treatment.
Greater Caribbean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) pool recordings from the Caribbean Manatee Conservation Center in Bayamon, Puerto Rico including location and depth of recordings as well as recordings from the natural protected habitat of Laguna del Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico which includes the GPS coordinates in the recording title. All recordings obtained using omnidirectional hydrophones with H1 recorder (Model SQ26-H1; Cetacean Research Technology, 2007) and are in .wav format.
Greater Caribbean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) pool recordings from the Caribbean Manatee Conservation Center in Bayamon, Puerto Rico including location and depth of recordings as well as recordings from the natural protected habitat of Laguna del Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico which includes the GPS coordinates in the recording title. All recordings obtained using omnidirectional hydrophones with H1 recorder (Model SQ26-H1; Cetacean Research Technology, 2007) and are in .wav format.
Greater Caribbean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) pool recordings from the Caribbean Manatee Conservation Center in Bayamon, Puerto Rico including location and depth of recordings as well as recordings from the natural protected habitat of Laguna del Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico which includes the GPS coordinates in the recording title. All recordings obtained using omnidirectional hydrophones with H1 recorder (Model SQ26-H1; Cetacean Research Technology, 2007) and are in .wav format.
Greater Caribbean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) pool recordings from the Caribbean Manatee Conservation Center in Bayamon, Puerto Rico including location and depth of recordings as well as recordings from the natural protected habitat of Laguna del Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico which includes the GPS coordinates in the recording title. All recordings obtained using omnidirectional hydrophones with H1 recorder (Model SQ26-H1; Cetacean Research Technology, 2007) and are in .wav format.
The Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) to gated tone burst of five frequencies (0.125, 0.5, 4, 8, 10 kHz) as well as broadband click stimuli were recorded in two cheetahs, one male and one female. We report, for the first time, hearing estimates from two cheetahs. Provided are the raw data files in PDF format and RPT format which is the file format used by the Intelligent Hearing System Universal Smart Box for analysis and to mark waves in order to obtain amplitude and latency of waves. Data were obtained for the female cheetah on February 1, 2024 and for the male cheetah on March 26, 2024 from the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens.
This research shows the environmental benefits of implementing floating garden designs in ponds and lakes as floating treatment wetlands (FTWs). Research conducted by Virginia Tech, Rutgers, Floating Island International, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development indicates successful remediation and removal of nutrient runoff from agricultural production, wastewater treatment, and human and animal waste. Plants with different rooting depths and surface areas can phytoaccumulate phosphorus and nitrogen compounds. Like wetlands, FTWs create an environment for microbial life around the rhizosphere of plants and the island substrate, generating colonies of bacteria called biofilm that digest nutrients from water or sediment. Natural wetland habitats, one of humanity's most efficient biofilters, have been destroyed around the United States to make room for farmland and cities. This research has been aggregated to fuel an FTW design on a small farm in Waynesville, Ohio, and other lakes and ponds for people that this research may inspire.
