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Lab Facility - The research lab is located in Baker Hall near the campus of OSU Newark.  One wing of the building has recently been renovated into a modernized research facility shared between myself and Dr. Karen Goodell.  This research lab has an insect growth room with optional red or infrared lighting, a video room (also with optional infrared lighting), a large, multi-use research space, desk space for up to four students, a shower facility for fieldwork, a hoop-house style insect flight cage, and other specialized space outlined below.

 

Greenhouse - The research lab has a small greenhouse facility, complete with sinks, growing shelves, etc.

 

Woodland Habitat Enclosure - Dr. Jose Cabral (OSUN Chemistry) and I are in the process of renovating a small courtyard at Baker Hall into a woodland habitat enclosure that can be subdivided as needed into multiple, temporary mesocosms important for a variety of behavioral research projects in the Roberts Lab. Simultaneously, the creation of a woodland enclosure will provide protected garden plots for chemical ecology projects in the Cabral Lab (cultivation of native plants for extraction of medicinal compounds).  Dr. Cabral also maintains a garden plot behind Baker Hall for rearing sun-tolerant, prairie plants for his research.

 

Electronics - A wide variety of professional and "prosumer" grade electronic equipment, specialized software for video/audio capture and data analysis, as well as basic entomology and ecology field equipment will be available either directly at the lab facility or on a checkout basis to meet the requirements of multiple avenues of research.  Some of that equipment is pictured below, and includes; miniDV camcorders and VTR, digital cameras, infrared capable surveillance cameras, stereomicroscopes equipped with digital imaging, laser-doppler vibrometer, laptop, ethernet connections, laser printer, etc.  If your project has specialized requirements, I will make every effort to purchase or arrange access to that equipment.