Rural System's

The Odorscapes Group

Odors are detected microparticles (including gas molecules) of substances. This group works to understand them well and to do studies and provide services for :

• Analyzing potential impacts of factories and developments on natural areas and other rural areas of importance and developing a rapid analytical system for expressing likely olfactory impacts
• Analyzing winds and their effects within ecosystems, including timber harvest patterns
• Working with scenting or defense and security-patrol dogs (detection enhancement)
• Using pheromones as baits for various purposes
• Assisting in rural law enforcement
• Evaluating tracking and security dogs, cadaver dogs, and others
• Assisting in hazzard material detection and cleanup
• Separating pleasant odors (e.g., those of bakery yeast) from harmful emissions from the same source(s)
• Studying the olfactory space of animals
• Presenting regional floral odorscapes and quantifying the seasonally changing fragrance of gardens (The Fragrant Garden etc.)
• Relating meadow and other natural odors to allergens and to peak seasons for outdoor enjoyment by the most people
• Developing an alpha unit odor within an existing or developed classification system (as for wines, perfumes, etc.)
• Developing further the insect and plant antennae work and hypotheses of Callahan of Florida
  • http://www.soulinvitation.com/CALLAHAN/callahan.html
  • Dickens, J.C., Callahan, F.E., Wergin, W.P. and Erbe, E.E. (1995) Olfaction in a hemimetabolous insect: antennal-specific protein in adult Lygus lineolaris (Heteroptera: Miridae). Journal of Insect Physiology 41, 857-867
  • http://www.uckac.edu/cottonipm/PDF_files/summit_papers/millar.pdf. (Phermone notes)
  • Ashman, T-L.,M. Bradburn, D.H. Cole, B.H. Blaney, and R.A. Raguso. 2005. The scent of a male: the role of floral olatiles in pollination of a gender dimorphic plant. Ecology 86(8):2099-2105

Perhaps you will share ideas with me about some of the topic(s) above .

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Robert H. Giles, Jr.
July 2, 2005