Week 10-11

 As the summer is starting to wrap up I'm finally starting to get into some tick work. For the most part its been outreach work in co-operation with Dr. Roundy at CDPH. I had a meeting with him last week to go over what tick issues face Colorado. It's nice that we don’t technically have any ticks here that cause Lyme disease or Alpha- gal; however that also means that there is essentially no funding for active tick surveillance. Instead Dr. Roundy relies on citizen surveillance. It's clearly been somewhat successful, as they have been able to find areas with soft  tick infestation. However it seems to be the most successful when  paired with CSU's outreach on hiking trails. I'm working on a project with Weld county to essentially do the same thing. We are working on making signages and little outposts for people to check for ticks on the Cache Le Poudre trails and then package them right then and there. I'm hoping the city of Greeley will be open to putting these signs and stations out but who knows.