SOME OHIO MOUNDS

Vogt: 3D Characteristics of Fire Ant Mounds 553 THREE-DIMENSIONAL SAMPLING METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING ANT MOUNDS

A field-portable 3D laser scanner was employed as a means of digitizing the surface of fire ant ( Solenopsis invicta Buren) mounds for analysis of shape and orientation in Mississippi and Oklahoma. Estimates of above-ground mound volume obtained through manual measurements of mound length, width, and height were higher and more variable than estimates obtained by summing the area underneath int...

Solar-powered ventilation of African termite mounds.

How termite mounds function to facilitate climate control is still only partially understood. Recent experimental evidence in the mounds of a single species, the south Asian termite Odontotermes obesus, suggests that the daily oscillations of radiant heating associated with diurnal insolation patterns drive convective flow within them. How general this mechanism is remains unknown. To probe thi...

Ohio University

Nitric oxide (NO) is a unique diffusible molecule in the vascular and nervous systems. Endogenous NO can modulate neuronal physiology and pathology by participating in many signaling pathways. Zinc is an essential metal ion for the body. In neurons, most zinc is accumulated in different intracellular pools. Recently, zinc was shown to modulate different physiological functions by acting as a si...

Ohio Ascomycete Notes Talaromyces from Soils of Southern Ohio

Celebrating our diversity. The education of some pioneering African American chemists in Ohio.

Thomas Nelson Baker Jr. may not be a household name, but he clearly represents the many African Americans that have achieved great success in higher education during a volatile racial period in our history (1). A native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Baker began his undergraduate studies at Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) and earned his B.A. and M.A. in chemistry in 1929 and 1930, respectively. ...