{"id":71,"date":"2018-03-09T19:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students-preprod\/2018\/03\/09\/2018-3-9-kelsey-e-fisher-iowastate\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:33:47","slug":"2018-3-9-kelsey-e-fisher-iowastate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/2018\/03\/09\/2018-3-9-kelsey-e-fisher-iowastate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey E. Fisher IowaState"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Kelsey E. Fisher<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3><strong>Entomology PhD Student; Iowa State University<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Kelsey\u2019s project, \u201cTracking Monarch Butterflies Through the Iowa Landscape Utilizing an Automated Radio Telemetry System,\u201d researches how monarch butterflies are utilizing the fragmented landscape to support the establishment of biological guidelines for habitat restoration. In order for monarchs to utilize small gardens and newly planted habitat, they must be able to detect their presence. She will track monarchs with active radio telemetry technology to understand their perception of distance and navigational patterns.\u00a0This will help determine how far apart habitat patches should be planted to increase overall connectivity and provide essential resources. Results from the study will inform conservation and restoration efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsey Fisher is a PhD student in the Department of Entomology at Iowa State University.&nbsp;Kelsey&#8217;s project, \u201cTracking Monarch Butterflies Through the Iowa Landscape Utilizing an Automated Radio Telemetry System,\u201d researches how monarch butterflies are utilizing the fragmented landscape to support the establishment of biological guidelines for habitat restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}