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Sandpiper Technologies Awards 2005 Equipment Grants
Sandpiper Technologies awarded 11 equipment grants for the 2005 field season to universities and nonprofit organizations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Recognizing the need for video equipment to help student complete their research objectives, the California-based company has offered free use of its rental fleet to students since 1997.
The annual application deadline for each upcoming field season is December 1 and off-season grants are awarded as equipment becomes available. For rental or grant information go to the Sandpiper Technologies web site at: www.sandpipertech.com.
The TreeTop (tm) is one of three lines of video equipment offered through the grant program. This telescoping inspection system surveys open cup and cavity nests, bats and other tree dwelling critters. The Peeper 2000 (tm) burrow probe utilizes gooseneck video extensions of either 1.0 inch or 2.3 inch diameter with a head mounted video display. The Sentinel System (tm) is a stationary auto-color camera with time-lapse recorder.
The Sandpiper Equipment Grants applied to three major areas of wildlife research: avian, mammal and reptilian.
AVIAN GRANTS
TreeTop Peepers, sometimes referred to as the "pole cam," "video stick" or "peeper scope" were granted to Chris Forristal of Montana State University to study the influence of post-wildfire timber harvest on Black-backed Woodpeckers and Matthew Schlesinger of University of California, Davis to study the effects of urbanization on cavity-nesting birds.
Sentinel Surveillance Systems were awarded to the following avian students:
Brent Horton of the University of Maine plans to study the influence of baseline corticosterone on parental behavior. William Keeley of Boise State University is continuing his study of Ferruginous Hawks in Central and West-central New Mexico. Mr. Keeley is affiliated with the Raptor Research Foundation. Heather Mathewson of the University of Nevada will monitor willow-nesting passerines in the Central Sierra Nevada. Carie Wingert of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo is working collaboratively with the Endangered Species Recovery Program (ESRP) on a burrowing owl study.
Simon Valdez at ITESM Campus Monterrey was awarded the 2.3-inch diameter Peeper 2000 System to study the Maroon-fronted Parrot in Nuevo Leon and Coahuila states in Mexico.
MAMMAL GRANTS
Nandini Rajamani of Auburn University in Alabama has been using the TreeTop Video System since August 2004 to study flying squirrels in India.
Kenneth Mills of Trent University in Canada will use a 7 meter Peeper 2000 Video System to investigate wolf pup mortality and recruitment in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario.
Mark Higley of the Hoopa Tribal Forestry in California will locate Pacific Fisher nests with a TreeTop system, then explore the dens with a Peeper 2000 in an experimental application of the two video systems.
SALAMANDER GRANT
Christopher Alan Conner of the University of Missouri will investigate the use of small mammal burrows by a mole salamander assemblage with the one-inch diameter Peeper 2000.
Sandpiper Technologies has designed and manufactured equipment for wildlife reserach since 1994. It incorporates a collaborative approach with biologists and provides technical expertise in optics, electo-mechanics and mechancial engineering.
Contact: Ann Christensen
Phone: 209-239-7460
Website: www.sandpipertech.com
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