Sample A: Cover Page of Thesis, Project, or Dissertation Proposal

The land area of Hampton Roads includes dozens of cities, counties and towns on
the Virginia Peninsula and in South Hampton Roads with an estimated population in 2006 of
1.5 million (U.S. Bureau of the Census 2000). Hampton Roads is within the Atlantic Coastal
Plain physiographic province. The majority of this region of the state is coastal lowlands
with elevations from 60'-250'. The western portion of this region is coastal uplands, broad
upland with low slopes and gentle drainage divides. A portion of this region is composed of
barrier islands and salt marshes (low, open areas covered with sediment and vegetation in
direct proximity to the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean) (Roberts and Bailey 2000,
Grymes 2009).
Suitable habitat (e.g., tidal and freshwater creeks, canals and forested wetlands, ditch
networks to allow for agriculture) is available in Hampton Roads for a broad range of
mosquito species.
The Richmond-Petersburg region is located in a central part of the state. It
straddles the fall line, the meeting zone of the Coastal Plain (coastal lowland and upland) and
the Piedmont on the James River at Richmond and the Appomattox River at Petersburg
(Netstate 2007). The area is composed of four independent cities (listed in order of
population): Richmond, Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights. The counties within
this region include Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico,
New Kent, Powhatan, and Prince George. As of 2006, the Richmond-Petersburg region had
a population of 1,081,753 (U.S. Bureau of the Census 2000).
In the Richmond-Petersburg region as well as the Northern Virginia and Hampton
Roads regions, the close proximity of good mosquito habitat threaded within and among high
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