Integrating global citizen science platforms to enable next-generation surveillance of invasive and vector mosquitoes

RM Carney, C Mapes, RD Low, A Long, A Bowser… - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The mosquito is the deadliest animal on earth, transmitting diseases that
cause nearly a million deaths and> 700 million infections each year. Yet only relatively few …

Global mosquito observations dashboard (GMOD): creating a user-friendly web interface fueled by citizen science to monitor invasive and vector mosquitoes

JA Uelmen Jr, A Clark, J Palmer, J Kohler… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit pose a significant public health
threat worldwide, causing more fatalities than any other animal. To effectively combat this …

GLOBE Mosquito Habitat Mapper citizen science data 2017–2020

R Low, R Boger, P Nelson, M Kimura - GeoHealth, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The GLOBE Program's GLOBE Observer application is a free citizen science mobile
data collection and visualization tool compatible with iOS and Android operating systems …

Rescuing troves of hidden ecological data to tackle emerging mosquito-borne diseases

SSC Rund, IK Moise, JC Beier… - Journal of the …, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Despite the major impact of mosquitoes on human health, knowledge gaps exist regarding
their natural population dynamics. Even the most basic information—such as spatiotemporal …

Mosquitoes and public health: Improving data validation of citizen science contributions using computer vision

JP Muñoz, R Boger, S Dexter, R Low - Delivering superior health and …, 2020 - Springer
Citizen scientists have the potential to play an important role in combating mosquito-borne
diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, Zika, and West Nile virus. While public health …

[HTML][HTML] Mosquito alert: leveraging citizen science to create a GBIF mosquito occurrence dataset

Ž Južnič-Zonta, I Sanpera-Calbet, R Eritja, JRB Palmer… - Gigabyte, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Mosquito Alert dataset includes occurrence records of adult mosquitoes
collected worldwide in 2014–2020 through Mosquito Alert, a citizen science system for …

[HTML][HTML] Building international capacity for citizen scientist engagement in mosquito surveillance and mitigation: The GLOBE Program's GLOBE Observer Mosquito …

RD Low, TG Schwerin, RA Boger, C Soeffing… - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
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Mosquito Surveillance and Mitigation: The GLOBE Program’s GLOBE Observer Mosquito …

Deep learning identification for citizen science surveillance of tiger mosquitoes

BA Pataki, J Garriga, R Eritja, JRB Palmer… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Global monitoring of disease vectors is undoubtedly becoming an urgent need as the
human population rises and becomes increasingly mobile, international commercial …

Citizen science and smartphone e-entomology enables low-cost upscaling of mosquito surveillance

LB Sousa, SR Fricker, SS Doherty, CE Webb… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mosquito surveillance remains a cornerstone of pest and disease control operations globally
but is strongly limited in scale by resources. The use of citizen science to upscale scientific …

Mosquito species identification using convolutional neural networks with a multitiered ensemble model for novel species detection

A Goodwin, S Padmanabhan, S Hira, M Glancey… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
With over 3500 mosquito species described, accurate species identification of the few
implicated in disease transmission is critical to mosquito borne disease mitigation. Yet this …