The Hunter Animal Population Scanner
Beronike Watkin
This scanner will read your animal population file and show what's in it.
Find out if your map is as empty as you think or if you've just been looking in the wrong places.
With live mode to see your kills and the resulting re-spawns in real time while you hunt.
Mississippi is currently experiencing a record-high white-tailed deer population across several regions of the state, leading wildlife officials at the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to formally request that hunters harvest one more deer on average.
The number of deer each individual is allowed to harvest per season, known as a bag limit, remains the same. MDWFP Deer Program Coordinator William McKinley says the idea is to encourage hunters to fulfill more of that limit and help control numbers.
McKinley says the exact reason for that is unknown. But MDWFP data show that while the actual amount of deer being harvested has dropped far too low, hunting license applications have remained around the same levels as previous years.
Much of the Delta and southwest Mississippi makes up the Mississippi Flyway, a migration route that serves the seasonal migration of more than 325 bird species from the northernmost point in the Western Hemisphere to the southernmost.
As keystone herbivores, deer, when overpopulated, are known to virtually eliminate plants from a given landscape through grazing. In Mississippi, white-tailed are particularly fond of strawberry bush and red mulberry, both of which McKinley says have taken fairly big hits since the herd began to grow.
Earlier this year, in cooperation with the National Park Service and the Natchez Trace Parkway, MDWFP employees conducted a thermal survey of deer along the entire 444 mile-long route. The effort involved attaching a thermal scanner to the side of a pickup truck and traversing the Parkway, end-to-end, three times.
The mission of the CUNY X-Ray Facility is to perform single-crystal analysis for the structure determination of molecules, which make up a crystal. This technique is called single-crystal X-ray crystallography. It is the ultimate method for definitive determination of molecular structures at the atomic level for both organic and inorganic compounds. Its uses range from simple identification of compounds to various exotic configuration and conformational studies.
The NMR Facility at Hunter was established in 1983 and has recently undergone major renovations. At present, the facility consists of four NMR instruments which are utilized by scientists from the entire CUNY community. The large variety of available probes allows detection of virtually any MR-active nuclide. The facility gets extensive use from researchers for the analysis of organic and inorganic compounds, for the identification of natural products, and for the determination of three-dimensional structures of macromolecules.
The Bio-Imaging facility currently provides optical and video microscopy services. The facility is equipped with two spinning disk confocal miroscopes, and is also equipped for bright field, phase contrast, modulation contrast and epi fluorescence microscopy. The facility has two separate wide field image analysis stations, a JEOL JEM-100C/CX Transmission Electron Microscope, a Typhoon 9410 scanner for the quantitation and localization of sub cellular fluorescent and radioactive molecules, a Densitometer, and color and B&W laser printers for the production of publication quality graphics and presentation materials.
The Network Facility was established in 1990 to provide an enhanced electronic infrastructure and trained staff to the researchers of the Gene Center. The facility is spread over 4 floors of the north building of Hunter College. Essentially each floor is a subnet of the network with an additional subnet to host wireless clients.
The AAALAC accredited program provides care and housing for a wide range of laboratory animal species. The main facility is a 7,700 square foot, single corridor, conventional facility located in the North Building. Access is restricted to authorized personnel.
The Flow-Cytometry (FACS) facility is located on the ninth floor of the Hunter North building. This facility provides analyses of up to 7 parameters in eukaryotic cell populations and sorts cells under sterile conditions. These analyses can be used to identify and isolate rare cell populations, determine chromosome ploidy in individual cells, study apoptosis, and study cell-signaling among other applications.
Our Internet2 and Videoconferencing facility was founded to promote distance learning and provide accessibility to the Internet2 (Abilene backbone) network. Currently, Hunter College and CUNY are part of the Internet2 Consortium along with other 200+ institutions.
The CUNY Mass Spectrometry Facility at Hunter College provides a wide variety of mass spectrometry services to research laboratories at Hunter College, other CUNY campuses, and many outside organizations.
Biochemistry Stores is a part of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department of the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. As a research supply storeroom that purchases and dispenses nearly $3 million per year in inventory, the Biochemistry Stores services: all University of Iowa research laboratory units, units of the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, University of Iowa students, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and any other facilities having funding through the University of Iowa. Biochemistry Stores stocks a broad range of research chemicals, labware, glassware, expendables, and other necessary research supplies, and uses high sales volume to negotiate the purchase of the highest quality inventory at the lowest possible prices. Products are dispensed on a walk-in basis in a quick and efficient manner.
The Carver College of Medicine's BSL3 Laboratory facility provides researchers with state-of-the-art laboratories in which to safely study BSL3 select and non-select agents and toxins regulated by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The facility has been designed to safely accommodate research, clinical, and diagnostic procedures, including animal housing areas for rodents and other small animals. In addition to the animal areas, there are additional individual laboratories to accommodate work for tissue culture, virology, microbiology, and molecular biology. Each of the two facilities allows up to approximately 10 researchers to work simultaneously, which can be reserved using an online reservation system. Prior to using the facility, researchers undergo a rigorous training program and all work is monitored by the Director, the Responsible Officials/Biosafety Officers, and the Carver College of Medicine BSL3 Oversight Committee.
The BSL3 facility laboratories are furnished with all necessary equipment to safely perform tissue culture, virology, microbiology, and molecular biology experiments, including Biological Safety Cabinets, incubators, microscopes, centrifuges, plate readers, shakers, refrigerators, and freezers. The core uses Freezerworks as the inventory management software, which tracks all samples. Additionally, it houses a Zeiss Axiovert 200M inverted fluorescence microscope complete with an environmental chamber, allowing researchers to visualize microbe-host cell interactions and responses in real time. This powerful system provides our researchers with the unparalleled ability to perform a range of microscopy experiments that otherwise would not be possible as all BSL3 samples must be inactivated prior to removal from the laboratory.
The Biomedical Research Store provides University of Iowa research investigators easy procurement of common molecular biology enzymes, reagents, and nucleic acid purification kits. The store also stocks tissue culture reagents, including media, serum, and supplements. Large volume contracts enable the store to negotiate very low prices as well as eliminate all shipping and packaging fees.
The Biospecimen Procurement and Molecular Epidemiology Resource (BioMER) provides investigators with IRB-compliant, clinically annotated, quality-ensured biomaterials to facilitate cancer and non-cancer related research objectives. These materials include tissues, which are distributed as fresh, frozen, or paraffin-embedded specimens, and serum, plasma, and germline DNA, many linkable to tumor samples and clinical data catalogued in coordination with the tissue. All specimens collected using BioMER services are inventoried in Labmatrix, the enterprise laboratory information management system (LIMS) used to catalog biomaterials collected for research throughout campus. The BioMER serves as a single point of entry for investigators requesting specimens and/or related data for research use.
The BioMER is a Shared Resource resulting from the merger and expansion of the Tissue Procurement Core (TPC) and Molecular Epidemiology Resource (MER). The TPC provides research infrastructure in the form of a well-characterized bank of frozen and routinely processed neoplastic and normal tissues suitable for molecular, genetic, biochemical, and pathologic studies. The MER is a network of prospective observational data repositories that utilize highly annotated, prospective, observational data from defined cohorts of cancer patients. The BioMER supports studies that are dependent on a linkage of clinical and molecular data by using two unified biorepository consents, one each for cancer and non-cancer related studies. This allows current and future use of tissue for research, permissions to link that tissue to clinical data, and to recontact the patient for additional studies.
The Biostatistics Consulting Center is a unit within the Biostatistics Department of the College of Public Health. The Consulting Center experts provide statistical consulting for researchers in the Carver College of Medicine, as well as other health science researchers at the University of Iowa Colleges of Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Consulting Center assists researchers with all phases of basic science, clinical, and epidemiologic research. Specifically, the Consulting Center can assist with grant proposal development, assist with study design, develop efficient data management strategies, perform appropriate statistical analysis, and assist in writing reports for scientific publication.
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