Keith Cressman

Keith Cressman
Keith Cressman
Country	Kenya
Titles:	Senior Locust Forecasting Officer
Focal areas:
	Climate Change; Early Warning; Emergency Response; Forecasting; Geographic Information System (GIS); Management; Migration; Monitoring; Population Dynamics; Regional Cooperation; Remote Sensing; Robotics & Drone Technology;
Focal species:
	Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria);
LinkedIn:	https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-cressman
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/faolocust

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Retkute, R., Thurston, W., Cressman, K., Gilligan, C.A., 2024. A framework for modelling desert locust population dynamics and large-scale dispersal. PLOS Computational Biology 20:e1012562. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012562
Ahmad, T., Cressman, K., Noorka, I.R., Omrane, M.B., Bader, M.K., 2022. Burgeoning Desert Locust Population as a Transboundary Plant Pest: A Significant Threat to Regional Food Security. In: The Food Security, Biodiversity, and Climate Nexus, pp. 189-212. Springer International Publishing, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12586-7_10
Retkute, R., Hinton, R.G.K., Cressman, K., Gilligan, C.A., 2021. Regional Differences in Control Operations during the 2019–2021 Desert Locust Upsurge. Agronomy 11:2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11122529
Cheke, R.A., Young, S., Wang, X., Tratalos, J.A., Tang, S., Cressman, K., 2020. Evidence for a Causal Relationship between the Solar Cycle and Locust Abundance. Agronomy 11:69. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11010069
Kimathi, E., Tonnang, H.E.Z., Subramanian, S., Cressman, K., Abdel-Rahman, E.M., Tesfayohannes, M., Niassy, S., Torto, B., Dubois, T., Tanga, C.M., Kassie, M., Ekesi, S., Mwangi, D., Kelemu, S., 2020. Prediction of breeding regions for the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria in East Africa. Scientific Reports 10:11937. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68895-2
Piou, C., Gay, P., Benahi, A.S., Babah Ebbe, M.A.O., Chihrane, J., Ghaout, S., Cisse, S., Diakite, F., Lazar, M., Cressman, K., Merlin, O., Escorihuela, M., 2019. Soil moisture from remote sensing to forecast desert locust presence. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:966–975. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13323
Escorihuela, M.J., Merlin, O., Stefan, V., Moyano, G., Eweys, O.A., Zribi, M., Kamara, S., Benahi, A.S., Ebbe, M.A.B., Chihrane, J., Ghaout, S., Cissé, S., Diakité, F., Lazar, M., Pellarin, T., Grippa, M., Cressman, K., Piou, C., 2018. SMOS based high resolution soil moisture estimates for desert locust preventive management. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 11:140–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2018.06.002
Cressman, K., 2016. Desert Locust. In: Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, pp. 87-105. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-394847-2.00006-1
Renier, C., Waldner, F., Jacques, D., Babah Ebbe, M., Cressman, K., Defourny, P., 2015. A dynamic vegetation senescence indicator for near-real-time Desert Locust habitat monitoring with MODIS. Remote Sensing 7:7545–7570. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70607545
Waldner, F., Ebbe, M., Cressman, K., Defourny, P., 2015. Operational monitoring of the Desert Locust habitat with earth observation: an assessment. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 4:2379–2400. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4042379
Cressman, K., Elliott, C., 2014. The FAO commission for controlling the desert locust in South-West Asia: A celebration of 50 years. 136.
Moustafa, O.R.M., Cressman, K., 2014. Using the enhanced vegetation index for deriving risk maps of desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria, Forskal) breeding areas in Egypt. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 8:084897–084897.
Cressman, K., 2013. Role of remote sensing in desert locust early warning. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 7:075098. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jrs.7.075098
Cressman, K., Hodson, D., Hodson, D., 2009. Plant pests diseases: the FAO experience. 8.
Cressman, K., Hodson, D., 2009. Surveillance, information sharing and early warning systems for transboundary plant pests diseases: the FAO experience. Arab Journal of Plant Protection 27:226–232.
Cressman, K., 2008. The use of new technologies in Desert Locust early warning. Outlooks on Pest Management 19:55–59. https://doi.org/10.1564/19apr03
van Huis, A., Cressman, K., Magor, J.I., 2007. Preventing desert locust plagues: optimizing management interventions. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 122:191–214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2006.00517.x
Symmons, P.M., Cressman, K., 2001. Desert Locust Guidelines. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.