Purring cricket discovery

A project in Kalaupapa, HI by Dale Broder
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I will be collecting the last pieces of data that we need for a publication about a new discovery in Hawaii—a purring cricket!
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Funded: $4,027 of $4,000
Dates: Oct 15th -> Nov 18th (34 days)
Project By: Dale Broder
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Latest News

Thank you SO much!

November 17th - via: kickstarter.com
We made our goal!  We will be sending everyone PURRsonal thank you notes from the field. Until then, thank you so much for making this possible! We are so excited about this research and could not do it without your support.  I'm so excited I'm... (Read More)

Gearing up!

November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
We are getting excited about this trip. Aaron just got his gear so that he can make recordings in the field for his senior thesis research. We're using an interface with 2 inputs so that he can simultaneously record audio and vibrational signals from... (Read More)

SAU colony and classroom research

November 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Exciting news: St Ambrose (SAU) biology department just purchased an incubator and supplies for me so that I can start a cricket colony in my lab here with animals collected during this trip. I start teaching a senior capstone evolution course in... (Read More)

Press for purring crickets

October 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Purring crickets are in the news! Check out articles about our discovery at Newsweek and at New Scientist. Thanks so much for all of your support everyone. We are halfway to our goal with 2 weeks left to go.   (Read More)

Making travel plans...

October 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you so very much to everyone who generously pledged to support our research. We just started making travel plans, and got permission to visit Kalaupapa National Park. This is where we first discovered the purring crickets, and it is a park... (Read More)

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