Reynolds Professor Too Graduate Squad Upwards For Dragonfly Inquiry

Reynolds Community College biological scientific discipline professor physician Richard Groover in addition to Reynolds graduate Donald Cooper (May 2018) cause got teamed upward to run on 2 of Groover’s summertime ecology in addition to employment organisation dependent area query projects.  

Cooper catching dragonflies

One projection involves the Hollows Golf Course inwards Hanover County. Groover in addition to Cooper volition query the effects of lake shore management to entice dragonfly abundance in addition to variety yesteryear cutting less of the water’s border vegetation. Groover states this volition relieve the golf game course of teaching the expense of manus trimming along the 12 acre lake, spell an additional create goodness for the golf game course of teaching volition last to a greater extent than dragonflies to consume mosquitoes that mightiness bother the gofers. “The Hollows Research information volition statistically back upward the resultant of to a greater extent than dragonflies due to this management practice,” added Groover.

The minute projection involves Groover’s three-year written report of dragonflies at 4 of the National Park Battlefields inwards eastern Hanover. This written report is supported yesteryear the National Park Service. In add-on to making a tape of all dragonflies residing inwards these commons sites, Groover in addition to Cooper are looking at the biodiversity of dragonflies on these protected lands alongside additional consideration of economical aspects.

Cooper recording information on dragonflies

"Working alongside physician Groover has been an illuminating sense alongside how I behave research,” said Cooper. “I cause got ever had an interdisciplinary approach to thinking in addition to learning, then when I asked physician Groover if nosotros could inwards roughly agency necktie economic science to his written report of Dragonflies, I was excited to listen that he had roughly ideas for us. It's fifty-fifty to a greater extent than exciting that our findings, through the back upward of collected data, may assist a lot of people inwards the nearly future.”

Cooper completed his studies at Reynolds in addition to has been accepted at the University of Virginia for the 2018 autumn semester. He is a recipient of the Valley Proteins Summer Stipend plan in addition to was likewise a Coca-Cola Bronze Scholar in addition to was inwards the Honors plan spell at Reynolds.

Groover’s query is partially funded yesteryear a Small Project Grant from the Virginia Academy of Science.