United Nations Ocean Conference: Virtual Side Event
Two members of PECO's team, Jennifer Sunday and Matt Lemay, gave talks at an United Nations Ocean Conference Virtual Side Event titled "Biomolecular observations in support of conservation and sustainable development". This event was in partnership with the Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON). The link is available here. |
PECO completes third year of coast-wide sampling
What can water tell us about the distribution of nearshore fish? The Pacific eDNA Coastal Observatory has just finished collecting seawater in bottles from Juneau, Alaska to San Diego, California in their second year of a coast-wide sampling of environmental DNA. The network will be processing this water to ask which fish live where, focussing on seagrass habitats across this large coastal region. This marks a the second year in what organizers at the Hakai Institute and McGill University hope to be a multi-year time series. This exemplifies an approach for tracking fish distributions and biodiversity across this key marine coastline, allowing scientists to track biogeography one day like we do the weather. Read more here. |