Due to Rain and Wind, the expedition will now take place Saturday, Sept. 12. We will meet in Dr. Clark's lab (Larkin Hall 370) at 7:15 to learn the cricket/katydid calls, then head across campus and to the zoo.
The Lewis and Clark expedition in the 1800's was famous for not only traversing the country from East to West, but of scientifically collecting and describing several new species (e.g., Clark's Nutcracker, Lewis Woodpecker). In a similar vein Kevin Matteson and J. Alan Clark will attempt to cross the Bronx and reach a suspected biodiversity hot spot known locally as The Bronx Zoo. Here they plan to rappel undergraduates down into what would appear to be from CIA satellite photos some sort of mini-African plains in the middle of the city! They suspect this could be a good place for crickets, but want undergraduates to go first to broaden their University experience. Inbetween the obligatory coffee stops to fortify their consitutions they will be seeking the Common True Katydid and its kin. Matteson and Clark have promised their patron, Fordham University, that they will, in exchange for tenure and a corner office, bring back new species and large NSF grants. At this point the M and C Expedition blogger is AWOL, but a blog has been created that once the blogger returns you can follow.
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