NEON Mosquito Pulse

An unofficial, art-forward explorer for NEON Mosquitoes sampled from CO₂ traps (DP1.10043.001). The production bundle is pinned to RELEASE-2026, DOI 10.48443/rmw1-me46, across 47 terrestrial sites.

• Living Poster / GitHub Pages
• Interactive Shiny app
• Suite hub

What is measured

The headline metric is eligible whole-trap-scaled mosquitoes per 24 trap-hours. It is a within-site trap-activity index, not population abundance, density, infection, transmission, exposure, or health risk.

The bundle is opportunity-complete:

• daytime and nighttime intervals remain separate;
• valid targetTaxaPresent = N intervals are supported zeros;
• missed, unknown, pending, or held outcomes are not zeros;
• invalid subsample proportions are held rather than treated as 1×;
• coarse target IDs remain in total activity but cannot inflate species richness.

See the scientific contract and pre-release review.

Local app

The deployed app runs entirely from committed bundles and local assets. With R 4.5.2 and the runtime packages installed:

shiny::runApp()

No NEON request, CDN, or font download occurs at startup.

Build and verification

The authoritative build runs in pinned GitHub Actions. Core commands are:

Rscript --vanilla scripts/test_helpers.R
Rscript --vanilla scripts/fetch_mos_all.R
Rscript --vanilla scripts/bundle_mos_data.R
Rscript --vanilla scripts/build_climate.R
Rscript --vanilla scripts/build_cross_site.R
Rscript --vanilla scripts/build_search_index.R
Rscript --vanilla scripts/write_manifest.R
Rscript --vanilla scripts/verify_bundle.R
node scripts/check_cover.mjs

The refresh workflow builds all 47 sites in empty staging, validates the exact candidate, pushes it to automation/mosquito-release-2026 and stops. When the candidate changes data it opens or updates one data-refresh issue with a rows and data-through summary and the compare link; a person opens the PR to master, waits for green checks on that exact head, and merges it. The workflow never pushes to master and never opens a PR.

Data and art provenance

• Source receipt: data/source-receipt.csv
• Bundle contract: R/mos_bundle_contract.R
• Image prompt and hashes: docs/ART-PROVENANCE.md
• Operational handoff: docs/BUILD-TEST-HANDOFF.md

NEON data are publicly available from the official product page. This project is not an official NEON product.