Projects

 

Ongoing Projects:

• Harnessing mosquito ecology for mosquito control
• Modeling mosquito distributions under current and future climate conditions
• Elucidation of interactions between invasive wild pigs and mosquitoes, as well as potential impacts of their ecological synergism on wildlife and human health 
• Species distribution and ecological niche modeling of historic malaria vectors 
• Investigation of the sensory ecology of mosquitoes
• Investigation of genus-specific mosquito trapping method optimization
• Elucidation of mosquito-plant interactions, including mosquito pollination

 

 

Completed Projects:

Creation of a guide to the mosquitoes of the Yukon

Synergistic spatial repellent properties of plant essential oils

Investigation of the cues that attract mosquitoes to floral nectar and other sources of plant-derived sugar

Assessment of the ability of mosquitoes to see ultraviolet light

Determination of the pollinator status of the common house mosquito