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Collecting ticks and detecting smoke

nyu field trip to cary
NYU Professor Mary Killilea inspects ticks collected by disease ecology students during field experiment. Credit: Jonathan King/NYU

Excerpt from WAMC's The Best of Our Knowledge

NYU student researchers have been using Cary's grounds as a field station for their studies of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases for the last decade. This year's field trip, where student researchers collected ticks during the fall peak of activity, is covered in this episode.

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