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Gridded data collection helps match GLOBE data to satellite data.

12/01/2021

A new scientific paper featuring GLOBE data was published in Frontiers in Climate on 18 November 2021. The paper describes a method for collecting GLOBE land cover and mosquito habitat data with the GLOBE Observer app in a way that makes it easier to match with satellite data. >>

11/30/2021

Mosquitoes: Sentinels of Our Changing Climate

If the last mosquito season felt longer, or if mosquito bites seemed to hurt more than you remembered, you didn’t imagine it! Mosquitoes respond sensitively to changes in heat, humidity, and precipitation, and serve as buzzy, annoying sentinels of our changing climate. Here’s how mosquitoes are letting us know our climate is changing. >>

GLOBE presentation on the NASA Hyperwall

11/15/2021

GLOBE @ COP26

Information about The GLOBE Program was included as part of the NASA presence at the recent 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. >>

08/27/2021

Where does your data go? A new publication about Mosquito Habitat Mapper data in GeoHealth

A recent publication in the journal GeoHealth looks at data submitted during the Mosquito Habitat Mapper’s first three years (2017-2020) in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It also takes a closer examination of data in three cities in Senegal, West Africa. >>

08/23/2021

Mosquito Monday Challenge Update - 23 August 2021

We’re in the home stretch of the challenge and there are only two days left in the challenge, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop. Every larva photo you take will help researchers come one step closer to training their software to recognize and identify disease-carrying larvae and the habitats or land cover types they prefer. >>

08/19/2021

Blogging from the Field: Mosquito Habitat Hunting in the Sky Islands, Southern AZ

Our expedition to find mosquito assassin species called Toxorhynchites moctezuma took us to an ecologically unique and biologically diverse region called the Sky Islands. >>