Contact: Dr. Allison Parker, Northern Kentucky University: parkera10@nku.edu
Initiated: 2020
Project Status: Currently accepting participants
Description
This project explores the role of human land use and other environmental factors that affect native and invasive mosquito species distributions and the diseases that they can vector. Students can collect data on campus or from their homes by collecting water in containers and monitoring them for mosquito eggs and larvae. Publicly available nationwide data on mosquito abundances will be examined relative to a variety of environmental variables and related back to data collected by students. This project can be the subject of a course laboratory activity lasting between 2 and 4 weeks.
Training Webinar, Recorded on August 12, 2020 (Closed Captioning Available)
Expanded Project Info: Instructional Materials include Identification Guides, Datasheets, Analysis Resources, and more.
Curriculum: Instructional Materials include curricular materials/resources.
Other Project Materials: Assessment Materials
Publications will be linked here when available.
Image: Flickr-CCBY/Peyman Zehtab Fard (2016)