{"id":2195,"date":"2020-01-22T12:13:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=2195"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:20:48","slug":"mccabe-nasa-develop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/internship-impacts\/mccabe-nasa-develop\/","title":{"rendered":"Forecasting Lyme Disease in Southern Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1216 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/tempest-mccabe\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_McCabe-Tempest-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Tempest McCabe headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_McCabe-Tempest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_McCabe-Tempest-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_McCabe-Tempest-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_McCabe-Tempest-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_McCabe-Tempest.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Tempest McCabe<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Project Partner<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.larc.nasa.gov\/2019\/summer\/SouthernMaineHealthAQ.html\"><span>NASA DEVELOP Boston Node<\/span><\/a>, Summer 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Summary<\/strong>: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twice in the last decade, Maine has reported the highest rates of Lyme disease in the United States. Lyme disease is treatable when detected, but can have severe health effects when left untreated. However, our current methods of predicting Lyme disease risk operate at the national, regional, or county scale, which is less useful to local cities and towns. Tess worked with NASA DEVELOP\u2019s Boston node to forecast annual Lyme disease cases at the town level using satellite data. Tess and collaborators found that temperature had more predictive power than humidity and that there was high variation between towns. The analysis helped test assumptions about Lyme disease occurrence and informed related monitoring and prevention efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2196\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/Deer-Tick-Adult-Female-1-636x459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"204\" class=\"wp-image-2196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/Deer-Tick-Adult-Female-1-636x459.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/Deer-Tick-Adult-Female-1-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/Deer-Tick-Adult-Female-1-1024x739.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult female deer tick (Credit: Griffin Dill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Project Deliverables<\/strong>:\u00a0<span>Presented a poster at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference in 2019, including maps of temperature effects and infection probability vs. detection probability. See below, or <a href=\"\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/McCabe_AGU_2019.pdf\">download pdf here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2201\" style=\"width: 828px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/McCabe_AGU_2019-636x445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"818\" height=\"572\" class=\"wp-image-2201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/McCabe_AGU_2019-636x445.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/McCabe_AGU_2019-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2020\/01\/McCabe_AGU_2019-1024x717.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess McCabe&#8217;s Poster Presentation at AGU 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Partner: NASA DEVELOP Boston Node, Summer 2019 Project Summary: Twice in the last decade, Maine has reported the highest rates of Lyme disease in the United States. Lyme disease is treatable when detected, but can have severe health effects when left untreated. However, our current methods of predicting Lyme disease risk operate at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16791,"featured_media":0,"parent":1881,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4097,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2195\/revisions\/4097"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}