Dr. Joseph Keiper
Dr. Joseph Keiper, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology, uses the farm as a study site for forensic entomology research. Keiper and two summer interns, Kurt Broz and Jessica Taylor, selected a location near the farm research ponds to study nine small mammal carcasses. Each mammal carcass was placed in cages on the ground and students checked them weekly to record the insect colonization. The study took place over a two-month period. The results of this study were submitted in a manuscript to the Journal of Medical Entomology in the fall of 2005.