OCTOBER 31, 2017

Stanford researchers create "Shazam" for mosquitoes

A simple recording of a mosquito’s buzz on a cell phone could contribute to a global-scale mosquito tracking map of unprecedented detail. The Prakash Labat Stanford, led by Manu Prakash, assistant professor of bioengineering, is looking for citizen scientists to contribute to Abuzz, a mosquito monitoring platform the lab developed to produce the most detailed global map of mosquito distribution. All that’s required is for as many people as possible to submit audio recordings of mosquitoes they encounter. Visit Abuzz: http://abuzz.stanford.edu/

Using Mobile Phones as Acoustic Sensors for the Surveillance of Spatio-temporal Mosquito Ecology

Haripriya Mukundarajan, Felix Hol, Erica A Castillo, Cooper Newby, Manu Prakash, eLife, Oct 31, 2017

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