I am a medical entomologist experienced in the identification of ticks and mosquitoes. I have been involved in collecting and identifying ticks and mosquitoes from across the UK and Europe, as well as running the UK national recording schemes for ticks and mosquitoes. I currently research ticks and tick-borne bacteria in the United States.

My main area of ID expertise is ticks of the UK & Europe, but I have experience identifying tick specimens from around the world. I am also experienced in UK/European mosquito ID.

I am interested in iNaturalist data for monitoring activity and distributions of arthropod vector species, and have done a couple of studies on this:

• Potential for online crowdsourced biological recording data to complement surveillance for arthropod vectors
  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250382

• Monitoring Trends in Distribution and Seasonality of Medically Important Ticks in North America Using Online Crowdsourced Records from iNaturalist https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/13/5/404/htm

I run the following iNaturalist projects:

• Minnesota tick activity monitor https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/minnesota-tick-activity-monitor
• UK & Ireland tick activity tracker https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/uk-ireland-tick-activity-tracker

• Mozzie Monitors UK & Ireland (in collaboration with University of South Australia)
  https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mozzie-monitors-uk-ireland

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