About the Authors

Curtis L. Blankespoor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Science Department, Jackson College, Jackson, Michigan, United States of America, University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, Michigan, United States of America, Swimmer’s Itch Solutions, LLC, Adrian, Michigan, United States of America

Harvey D. Blankespoor

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, Michigan, United States of America, Swimmer’s Itch Solutions, LLC, Adrian, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biology, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, United States of America

Randall J. DeJong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rdejong@calvin.edu

Affiliations University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, Michigan, United States of America, Swimmer’s Itch Solutions, LLC, Adrian, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biology, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interest: the authors operate a company that offers scientifically based swimmer’s itch assessment and mitigation services. There are no other conflicts of interest.