Catherine Lippi, MFAS
Department of Geography, University of Florida
Education
PhD Candidate, University of Florida (2016 - Present)
Department of Geography
Emerging Pathogens Institute
Department of Entomology & Nematology
Graduate Certificate, University of South Florida (2015)
Applied Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health
MFAS, University of Florida (2013)
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation
Technical Paper: Changes in the abundance of young-of-the-year winter flounder in response to predatory finfish abundance in Long Island Sound, CT
BS, University of Florida (2007)
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Florida Museum of Natural History
Minor in Zoology
Department of Geography
Emerging Pathogens Institute
Department of Entomology & Nematology
Graduate Certificate, University of South Florida (2015)
Applied Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health
MFAS, University of Florida (2013)
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation
Technical Paper: Changes in the abundance of young-of-the-year winter flounder in response to predatory finfish abundance in Long Island Sound, CT
BS, University of Florida (2007)
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Florida Museum of Natural History
Minor in Zoology
Selected Professional Experience
Emerging Pathogens Institute, Gainesville, FL (2016 - Present)
Graduate Research Assistant
Spatial and Statistical Modeling of Dengue and Zika Virus in Ecuador
Flagler College, Saint Augustine, FL (2015 - 2016)
Natural Sciences Instructor
Anastasia Mosquito Control District, Saint Augustine, FL (2015)
Graduate Research Intern
Vector Control, Statistics, and Public Health Education
Florida Department of Health, Baker County (2014 - 2015) and St. Johns County (2016)
Health Education Support and Statistics
Environmental Health Services
Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, Marineland, FL (2013 - 2016)
Research Technician
Media and Outreach Assistant
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT (2011 - 2012)
Museum Collections Assistant, Vertebrate Zoology
Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL (2008 - 2009)
Assistant Supervisor, Living Exhibits
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL (2004 - 2011)
Museum Collections and Research Assistant, Division of Herpetology
Graduate Research Assistant
Spatial and Statistical Modeling of Dengue and Zika Virus in Ecuador
Flagler College, Saint Augustine, FL (2015 - 2016)
Natural Sciences Instructor
Anastasia Mosquito Control District, Saint Augustine, FL (2015)
Graduate Research Intern
Vector Control, Statistics, and Public Health Education
Florida Department of Health, Baker County (2014 - 2015) and St. Johns County (2016)
Health Education Support and Statistics
Environmental Health Services
Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, Marineland, FL (2013 - 2016)
Research Technician
Media and Outreach Assistant
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT (2011 - 2012)
Museum Collections Assistant, Vertebrate Zoology
Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL (2008 - 2009)
Assistant Supervisor, Living Exhibits
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL (2004 - 2011)
Museum Collections and Research Assistant, Division of Herpetology
Selected Publications
Google Scholar Account
Lippi, C.A., A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, M.E.F. Bajana Loor, J.E. Duenas Zambrano, N.A. Epinoza Lopez, J.K. Blackburn, and S.J. Ryan. 2019. Geographic shifts in Aedes aegypti habitat suitability in Ecuador using larval surveillance data and ecological niche modeling: Implications of climate change for public health vector control. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13 (4): e0007322
Ryan, S.J., S.J. Mundis, A. Aguirre, C.A. Lippi, E. Beltrán, F. Heras, A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, and M. Neira. 2019. Phenotypic and genotypic resistance to commonly used insecticides in Aedes aegypti among four cities in southern Ecuador. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13 (6): e0007448
Taylor, R., S.J. Ryan, C.A. Lippi, D. Hall, H. Narouei-Khandan, J.R. Rohr, and L.R. Johnson. 2019. Predicting the fundamental thermal niche of crop pests and diseases in a changing world: a case study on citrus greening. Journal of Applied Ecology 56 (8): 2057-2068.
Ryan, S.J., C.A. Lippi, R. Nightingale, G. Hamerlinck, M.J. Borbor-Cordova, M. Cruz B, F. Ortega, R. Leon, E. Waggoner, and A.M. Stewart-Ibarra. 2019. Socio-ecological factors associated with dengue risk and Aedes aegypti presence in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(5): 682.
Lippi, C.A., A.M. Stewart-Ibarra , Á.G. Muñoz, M.J. Borbor, R. Mejía, K. Rivero, K. Castillo, W.B. Cardenas, S.J. Ryan. 2018. The social and spatial ecology of dengue presence and burden during an outbreak in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2012. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15(4): 827.
Lowe, R., A. Gasparrini, C.J. van Meerbeeck, C. Lippi, R. Mahon, A.R. Trotman, L. Rollock, A. Hinds, S.J. Ryan, and A.M. Stewart-Ibarra. 2018. Nonlinear and delayed impacts of climate on dengue risk in Barbados: A modelling study. 2018. PLOS Medicine 15(7): e1002613.
Ryan, S.J., C.A. Lippi, C.J. Carlson, A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, M.J. Borbor Cordova, M.M. Romero, S. Cox, R. Mahon, A. Trotman, L. Rollock, M. Gittens-St. Hilaire, D. King, and S. Daniel. 2018. Zika virus outbreak, Barbados, 2015–2016. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0978
Ryan, S.J., C.A. Lippi, P.H. Boersch-Supan, N. Heydari, M. Silva, J. Adrian, L.F. Noblecilla, E.B. Ayala, M.D. Encalada, D.A. Larsen, J.T. Krisher, L. Krisher, L. Fregosi, and A.M. Stewart-Ibarra. 2017. Quantifying Seasonal and Diel Variation in Anopheline and Culex Human Biting Rates in Southern Ecuador. Malaria Journal 16:479.
Mordecai, E.A., J.M. Cohen, M.V. Evans, P. Gudapati, L.R. Johnson, C.A. Lippi, K. Miazgowicz, C.C. Murdock, J.R. Rohr, S.J. Ryan, V. Savage, M.S. Shocket, A. Stewart-Ibarra, M.B. Thomas, and D.P. Weikel. 2017. Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(4): e0005568.
Dornburg, A., C. Lippi, S. Federman, J.A. Moore, D.L. Warren, T.L. Iglesias, M.C. Brandley, G.J. Watkins-Colwell, and A. Jones. 2016. Disentangling the influence of urbanization and invasion on endemic reptiles in tropical biodiversity hotspots: A case study of Phyllodactylus martini along an urban gradient in Curaçao. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57 (2): 147 - 164.
Weaver, J.H.R., C. Lippi, M.F. Sallam, M.K. Gaines, and R. Xue. 2016. Arbovirus surveillance report in St. Johns County, Florida, 2008 - 2014. Technical Bulletin of the Florida Mosquito Control Association 10: 14-17.
Sallam, M.F., C. Lippi, and R. Xue. 2016. Spatial analysis of arbovirus transmission in St. Johns County, Florida. Technical Bulletin of the Florida Mosquito Control Association 10: 18-29.
Krysko, K.L., L.P. Nuñez, C.A. Lippi, D.J. Smith, and M.C. Granatosky. 2016. Pliocene–Pleistocene lineage diversifications in the Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) in the Southeastern United States. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 111 - 122.
*FL DOH. 2015. Tobacco Use in Baker County. Florida Department of Health, Baker County Health Department.
*FL DOH. 2015. Maternal and Child Health in Baker County. Florida Department of Health, Baker County Health Department.
*FL DOH. 2014. Oral Health in Baker County. Florida Department of Health, Baker County Health Department.
Krysko, K.L., D.J. Smith, and C.A. Smith. 2010. Historic and current geographic distribution and preliminary evidence of population genetic structure in the Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) in the Southeastern United States. Final Report, Project Agreement 06011, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Smith, C.A. and K.L. Krysko. 2007. Distributional comments on the teiid lizards (Squamata: Teiidae) of Florida with a key to species. Caribbean Journal of Science 43(2): 260-265.
( * indicates sole authorship on behalf of agency)
Lippi, C.A., A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, M.E.F. Bajana Loor, J.E. Duenas Zambrano, N.A. Epinoza Lopez, J.K. Blackburn, and S.J. Ryan. 2019. Geographic shifts in Aedes aegypti habitat suitability in Ecuador using larval surveillance data and ecological niche modeling: Implications of climate change for public health vector control. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13 (4): e0007322
Ryan, S.J., S.J. Mundis, A. Aguirre, C.A. Lippi, E. Beltrán, F. Heras, A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, and M. Neira. 2019. Phenotypic and genotypic resistance to commonly used insecticides in Aedes aegypti among four cities in southern Ecuador. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13 (6): e0007448
Taylor, R., S.J. Ryan, C.A. Lippi, D. Hall, H. Narouei-Khandan, J.R. Rohr, and L.R. Johnson. 2019. Predicting the fundamental thermal niche of crop pests and diseases in a changing world: a case study on citrus greening. Journal of Applied Ecology 56 (8): 2057-2068.
Ryan, S.J., C.A. Lippi, R. Nightingale, G. Hamerlinck, M.J. Borbor-Cordova, M. Cruz B, F. Ortega, R. Leon, E. Waggoner, and A.M. Stewart-Ibarra. 2019. Socio-ecological factors associated with dengue risk and Aedes aegypti presence in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(5): 682.
Lippi, C.A., A.M. Stewart-Ibarra , Á.G. Muñoz, M.J. Borbor, R. Mejía, K. Rivero, K. Castillo, W.B. Cardenas, S.J. Ryan. 2018. The social and spatial ecology of dengue presence and burden during an outbreak in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2012. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15(4): 827.
Lowe, R., A. Gasparrini, C.J. van Meerbeeck, C. Lippi, R. Mahon, A.R. Trotman, L. Rollock, A. Hinds, S.J. Ryan, and A.M. Stewart-Ibarra. 2018. Nonlinear and delayed impacts of climate on dengue risk in Barbados: A modelling study. 2018. PLOS Medicine 15(7): e1002613.
Ryan, S.J., C.A. Lippi, C.J. Carlson, A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, M.J. Borbor Cordova, M.M. Romero, S. Cox, R. Mahon, A. Trotman, L. Rollock, M. Gittens-St. Hilaire, D. King, and S. Daniel. 2018. Zika virus outbreak, Barbados, 2015–2016. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0978
Ryan, S.J., C.A. Lippi, P.H. Boersch-Supan, N. Heydari, M. Silva, J. Adrian, L.F. Noblecilla, E.B. Ayala, M.D. Encalada, D.A. Larsen, J.T. Krisher, L. Krisher, L. Fregosi, and A.M. Stewart-Ibarra. 2017. Quantifying Seasonal and Diel Variation in Anopheline and Culex Human Biting Rates in Southern Ecuador. Malaria Journal 16:479.
Mordecai, E.A., J.M. Cohen, M.V. Evans, P. Gudapati, L.R. Johnson, C.A. Lippi, K. Miazgowicz, C.C. Murdock, J.R. Rohr, S.J. Ryan, V. Savage, M.S. Shocket, A. Stewart-Ibarra, M.B. Thomas, and D.P. Weikel. 2017. Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(4): e0005568.
Dornburg, A., C. Lippi, S. Federman, J.A. Moore, D.L. Warren, T.L. Iglesias, M.C. Brandley, G.J. Watkins-Colwell, and A. Jones. 2016. Disentangling the influence of urbanization and invasion on endemic reptiles in tropical biodiversity hotspots: A case study of Phyllodactylus martini along an urban gradient in Curaçao. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57 (2): 147 - 164.
Weaver, J.H.R., C. Lippi, M.F. Sallam, M.K. Gaines, and R. Xue. 2016. Arbovirus surveillance report in St. Johns County, Florida, 2008 - 2014. Technical Bulletin of the Florida Mosquito Control Association 10: 14-17.
Sallam, M.F., C. Lippi, and R. Xue. 2016. Spatial analysis of arbovirus transmission in St. Johns County, Florida. Technical Bulletin of the Florida Mosquito Control Association 10: 18-29.
Krysko, K.L., L.P. Nuñez, C.A. Lippi, D.J. Smith, and M.C. Granatosky. 2016. Pliocene–Pleistocene lineage diversifications in the Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) in the Southeastern United States. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 111 - 122.
*FL DOH. 2015. Tobacco Use in Baker County. Florida Department of Health, Baker County Health Department.
*FL DOH. 2015. Maternal and Child Health in Baker County. Florida Department of Health, Baker County Health Department.
*FL DOH. 2014. Oral Health in Baker County. Florida Department of Health, Baker County Health Department.
Krysko, K.L., D.J. Smith, and C.A. Smith. 2010. Historic and current geographic distribution and preliminary evidence of population genetic structure in the Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) in the Southeastern United States. Final Report, Project Agreement 06011, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Smith, C.A. and K.L. Krysko. 2007. Distributional comments on the teiid lizards (Squamata: Teiidae) of Florida with a key to species. Caribbean Journal of Science 43(2): 260-265.
( * indicates sole authorship on behalf of agency)
Selected Presentations
Lippi, C.A.* 2018. Incorporating geostatistical methods into vector-borne disease surveillance and response in Ecuador. Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Vero Beach, FL
Lippi, C.A., A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, A. Trotman, R. Mahon, L. Rollock, D. Holligan, S. Kirton, and S.J. Ryan. 2018. Hotspots for public health intervention: different tools for emerging and endemic diseases in small areas, a spatiotemporal analysis of dengue and chikungunya in Barbados, 2013–2016. American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Poster.
Lippi, C.A.* 2018. Management of Vector-borne Diseases: An Introduction to Medical Geography. IB Environmental Systems and Societies, Pedro Menendez High School, St. Augustine, FL
Lippi, C.A. * 2018. Incorporating geostatistical methods into vector-borne disease surveillance and response. Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) 2013+ DIMACS Workshop on Global Change and Vector-borne Diseases: Mapping Emerging Infectious Diseases, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Lippi, C.A., Stewart-Ibarra, A.M., Mao, L., Heydari, N., Ryan, S.J. 2018. Using a network analysis framework to discuss delivery of mosquito abatement services in Machala, Ecuador. Session: Geographic Research on Vector-borne Diseases I, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, LA
Lippi, C.A.* 2018. Understanding spatial and climatological factors that affect mosquito-borne disease transmission. National Health Education Week, Society for Public Health Education, University of Florida, Gainesville
Lippi, C.A., K. Castillo, A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, Á.G. Muñoz, M.J. Borbor, R. Mejía, K. Rivera, W.B. Cardenas, and S.J. Ryan. 2016. The social ecology of dengue presence and burden during an outbreak in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2012. American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Poster.
Lippi, C.A. 2015. Bromeliads (Family: Bromeliaceae) as habitat and potential sugar resources for mosquitoes. Anastasia Mosquito Control District (AMCD) Research Symposium, Saint Augustine, FL
Lippi, C.A. 2015. Biostatistical analysis of AMCD sentinel chicken arbovirus surveillance network. Meeting of the Anastasia Mosquito Control District (AMCD), Saint Augustine, FL
C. Bibbs and C.A. Lippi. 2015. Environmental factors and their effect on local mosquito abundance. St. Johns County Democratic Party Climate Challenge Meeting, Saint Augustine, FL
Smith, C.A., M. Haehnel-Taguchi, and J.C. Liao. 2014. Regional specialization of posterior lateral line efferent neurons in the hindbrain of larval zebrafish. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), Austin, TX
Smith, C.A., G.J. Watkins-Colwell, and D.K. Skelly. 2012. From Acris to Xenopus: Recuration of Amphibians at Yale Peabody Museum. 27th Annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), New Haven, CT
(* invited talk)
Lippi, C.A., A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, A. Trotman, R. Mahon, L. Rollock, D. Holligan, S. Kirton, and S.J. Ryan. 2018. Hotspots for public health intervention: different tools for emerging and endemic diseases in small areas, a spatiotemporal analysis of dengue and chikungunya in Barbados, 2013–2016. American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Poster.
Lippi, C.A.* 2018. Management of Vector-borne Diseases: An Introduction to Medical Geography. IB Environmental Systems and Societies, Pedro Menendez High School, St. Augustine, FL
Lippi, C.A. * 2018. Incorporating geostatistical methods into vector-borne disease surveillance and response. Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) 2013+ DIMACS Workshop on Global Change and Vector-borne Diseases: Mapping Emerging Infectious Diseases, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Lippi, C.A., Stewart-Ibarra, A.M., Mao, L., Heydari, N., Ryan, S.J. 2018. Using a network analysis framework to discuss delivery of mosquito abatement services in Machala, Ecuador. Session: Geographic Research on Vector-borne Diseases I, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, LA
Lippi, C.A.* 2018. Understanding spatial and climatological factors that affect mosquito-borne disease transmission. National Health Education Week, Society for Public Health Education, University of Florida, Gainesville
Lippi, C.A., K. Castillo, A.M. Stewart-Ibarra, Á.G. Muñoz, M.J. Borbor, R. Mejía, K. Rivera, W.B. Cardenas, and S.J. Ryan. 2016. The social ecology of dengue presence and burden during an outbreak in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2012. American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Poster.
Lippi, C.A. 2015. Bromeliads (Family: Bromeliaceae) as habitat and potential sugar resources for mosquitoes. Anastasia Mosquito Control District (AMCD) Research Symposium, Saint Augustine, FL
Lippi, C.A. 2015. Biostatistical analysis of AMCD sentinel chicken arbovirus surveillance network. Meeting of the Anastasia Mosquito Control District (AMCD), Saint Augustine, FL
C. Bibbs and C.A. Lippi. 2015. Environmental factors and their effect on local mosquito abundance. St. Johns County Democratic Party Climate Challenge Meeting, Saint Augustine, FL
Smith, C.A., M. Haehnel-Taguchi, and J.C. Liao. 2014. Regional specialization of posterior lateral line efferent neurons in the hindbrain of larval zebrafish. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), Austin, TX
Smith, C.A., G.J. Watkins-Colwell, and D.K. Skelly. 2012. From Acris to Xenopus: Recuration of Amphibians at Yale Peabody Museum. 27th Annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), New Haven, CT
(* invited talk)