Peer-Reviewed Publications

Edson, LB, MacDonald, E, Cawood, A and Fischer, H. (2024). Practical Applications of a Participatory Science Project Evaluation Tool: Perspectives from Across Earth and Space Science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 9(1): 10, pp. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.536

Agrawal, N., Nelson, P.V., and Low, R.D. (2023) “A Novel Approach for Predicting Large Wildfires Using Machine Learning towards Environmental Justice via Environmental Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Reanalysis Data across the United States” Remote Sensing 15, no. 23: 5501. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15235501

Uelmen, J.A., Clark, A., Palmer, J. Kohler, J., Van Dyke, L.C., Low, R.D., Mapes, C.D., and Carney, R.M. (2023) Global mosquito observations dashboard (GMOD): creating a user-friendly web interface fueled by citizen science to monitor invasive and vector mosquitoes. Int J Health Geogr 22, 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-023-00350-7

Carney, RM, Long, A, Low, RD, Zohdy, S, Palmer, JRB, Elias, P, Bartumeus, F, Njoroge, L, Muniafu, M, Uelmen, JA, Rahola, N and Chellappan, S. (2023). Citizen Science as an Approach for Responding to the Threat of Anopheles stephensi in Africa. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 8(1): 60, pp. 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.616

Huang, X., Yang, D., He, Y., Nelson, P., Low, R., McBride, S. Mitchell, J., Guarraia, M. (2023) Land cover mapping via crowdsourced multi-directional views: The more directional views, the better, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,Volume 122, 103382, SSN 1569-8432, https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1569-8432(23)00206-6

Xia, I., Singirikonda, N., Hellman, L., Watson, J., Hanna, M., & Low, R. (2022). Using Machine Learning Regressors for the Discovery of Culex Mosquito Habitats and Breeding Patterns in Washington D.C . Journal of Student Research, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i4.3710

Sun, C., Nimbalkar, J., and Bedi, R. (2023) Predicting Future Mosquito Larval Habitats Using Time Series Climate Forecasting and Deep Learning. 2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10002240

Manzanarez, S., Manian, V., & Santos, M. (2022). Land Use Land Cover Labeling of GLOBE Images Using a Deep Learning Fusion Model. Sensors, 22(18), 6895. MDPI AG. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22186895

Carney, R., Mapes, C., Low, R., Long, A., Bowser, A., Durieux, D., et al. (2022). Integrating Global Citizen Science Platforms to Enable Next-Generation Surveillance of Invasive and Vector Mosquitoes. Insects, 13(8), 675. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13080675

Low, R.D.; Schwerin, T.G.; Boger, R.A.; Soeffing, C.; Nelson, P.V.; Bartlett, D.; Ingle, P.; Kimura, M.; Clark, A. (2022). Building International Capacity for Citizen Scientist Engagement in Mosquito Surveillance and Mitigation: The GLOBE Program’s GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper. Insects 2022, 13, 624. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13070624

Enterkine, J., Campbell, B. A., Kohl, H., Glenn, N. F., Weaver, K., Overoye, D., & Danke, D. (2022). The potential of citizen science data to complement satellite and airborne lidar tree height measurements: lessons from The GLOBE Program. In Environmental Research Letters (Vol. 17, Issue 7, p. 075003). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac77a2

Dodson, J. B., Robles, M. C., Rogerson, T. M., & Taylor, J. E. (2022). Do citizen science Intense Observation Periods increase data usability? A deep dive of the NASA GLOBE Clouds data set with satellite comparisons. Earth and Space Science, 9, e2021EA002058. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002058

Polineni, S., Shastri, O., Bagchi, A., Gnanakumar, G., Rasamsetti, S., and Sundaravadivel, P. (2022) MOSQUITO EDGE: An Edge-Intelligent Real-Time Mosquito Threat Prediction Using an IoT-Enabled Hardware System. Sensors , 22(2), 695. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22020695

Low, R.D., Nelson, P.V., Soeffing, C., Clark, A., SEES 2020 Mosquito Mappers Research Team. (2021) Adopt a Pixel 3 km: A Multiscale Data Set Linking Remotely Sensed Land Cover Imagery with Field Based Citizen Science Observation. Frontiers in Climate, 18. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.658063

Cho, H., Low, R., Fischer, H., and Storksdieck, M. (2021). The STEM Enhancement in Earth Science “Mosquito Mappers” Virtual Internship: Outcomes of Place-Based Engagement with Citizen Science. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.682669

Low, R., Boger, R., Nelson, P., and Kimura, M. (2021). GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper Citizen Science Data 2017-2020. GeoHealth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000436

Campbell, B., (2021). ICESat-2 and the Trees Around the GLOBE student research campaign: Looking at Earth’s tree height, one tree at a time. In Acta Astronautica, Volume 182, Pages 203-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.02.002

Kohl HA, Nelson PV, Pring J, Weaver KL, Wiley DM, Danielson AB, Cooper RM, Mortimer H, Overoye D, Burdick A, Taylor S, Haley M, Haley S, Lange J and Lindblad ME (2021) GLOBE Observer and the GO on a Trail Data Challenge: A Citizen Science Approach to Generating a Global Land Cover Land Use Reference Dataset. Front. Clim. 3:620497. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.620497

Fischer, H., Cho, H. and Storksdieck, M., (2021). Going Beyond Hooked Participants: The Nibble-and- Drop Framework for Classifying Citizen Science Participation. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1), p.10. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.350

Kar, K. and Low, R. (2021). The effect of poverty on mosquito-borne illness across the United States. Journal of Emerging Investigators, 3, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.59720/20-159

Lin, D.W. (2020) Land Cover Feature Analysis for Mosquito Habitats. IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology. e-ISSN: 2319-2402,p- ISSN: 2319-2399. Volume 14, Issue 12 Ser. II (December 2020), p 24-30. https://www.academia.edu/44798039/Land_Cover_Feature_Analysis_for_Mosquito_Habitats

Amos, H. M., et al., (2020). GLOBE Observer Data: 2016–2019. In Earth and Space Science (Vol. 7, Issue 8). American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020ea001175

Colón Robles, M., et al., (2020). Clouds around the World: How a Simple Citizen Science Data Challenge Became a Worldwide Success. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, E1201–E1213. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0295.1

Boger, R., Low, R., and Nelson, P., (2020). Identifying hurricane impacts on Barbuda using citizen science ground observations, drone photography and satellite imagery. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.; Copernicus. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-W11-23-2020

Muñoz, J. P., Boger, R., Dexter, S., & Low, R. (2019). Mosquitoes and Public Health: Improving Data Validation of Citizen Science Contributions Using Computer Vision. In Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age (pp. 469–493). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17347-0_23

Dodson, J.B., Colón Robles, M., Taylor J.E., DeFontes, C.C., Weaver K.L., (2019). Eclipse Across America: Citizen Science Observations of the 21 August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0297.1

Rahmen, M-I., K.P. Czajkowski, Y. Jiang, and K. Weaver. (2019). Validation of GLOBE Citizen Science Air Temperature Observations Using Data from the Great American Solar Eclipse, book on the Great American Solar Eclipse, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 601. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ASPC..516..501U/abstract

Weaver, K., Kohl, H., Martin, A., & Burdick, A., (2019). How Cool Was the Eclipse? Collecting Earth Science Data with Citizen Scientists and GLOBE Observer. In S.R. Buxner, L. Shore, & J.B. Jensen (Eds.), Celebrating the 2017 Great American Eclipse: Lessons Learned from the Path of Totality (pp. 511-524). San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series. https://aspbooks.org/custom/publications/paper/516-0511.html

Aïkpon R., Klotoé J., Dramane G., Brettenny M., Lawani Y., (2019). Larval breeding characteristics and distribution of Aedes mosquito species in the economic capital of Benin: A public health concern. International Journal of Entomology Research, 4(3):57-62. https://www.entomologyjournals.com/assets/archives/2019/vol4issue3/4-3-26-117.pdf

Hayden, L., Taylor, J., and Colon Robles, M., (2019). GLOBE: Connecting a Community of Observers Directly to NASA Satellites. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, 7(1), 98-99. https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2019.2891930

Muñoz, J.P., Boger, R., Dexter, S., Low, R., and Li, J., (2018). Image Recognition of Disease-Carrying Insects: A System for Combating Infectious Diseases using Image Classification Techniques and Citizen Science. The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51), Waikoloa HI. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50247

Other Publications

Tarosky, R. (2024). Annular Solar Eclipse: A short report of cloud observations and temperature data from Tacoma, Washington, USA. Bulletin of the AAS, 56(3). https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.8dda0f45

Schwerin, T.G., Fischer, H.A., and Mortimer, H. (2020). Engaging Families with GLOBE Observer. Connected Science Learning, Volume 2, Issue 4. https://www.nsta.org/connected-science-learning/connected-science-learning-october-december-2020/engaging-families-globe

Low, R. (2020), Zika Zine: A Resource Promoting the Integration of STEAM and Literacy in the Classroom. The Earth Scientist 36(1): 6-8. https://scied.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/media/documents/zika_zine_article_in_the_earth_scientist.pdf#page=6

Burck, L. and Soeffing, C. (2019). Phenomena-Based Student Investigations with NASA Earth Observations. The Earth Scientist, Winter 2019, 26-34. https://www.strategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Burck_FINALRevApril24.pdf

Colón Robles, M., Bouwman, J., and Smith-Long, C., (2019). Integrating Tech: Making Science Come Alive With Clouds. NSTA Science Scope, vol. 43, no. 4, November 2019. pp. 8-12. https://observer.globe.gov/documents/19589576/52621820/NSTA+Science+SCOPE+Integrating+Tech+with+Clouds

Weaver, K. (2019). Can an App Change How You See the World? GLOBE Observer for Interpreters. Legacy: The Magazine of the National Association for Interpretation, vol. 30, no. 5, September/October 2019, pp. 20-23. https://observer.globe.gov/documents/19589576/50520851/Legacy+Magazine+-+Sep-Oct+2019+GO+Article+Abstract