Sample collection in the Los Angeles region, 2021
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The ObservatoryObservations of our oceans over the last half-century have shown a global fingerprint of species’ range shifts in response to climate change. Due to the difficulty of tracking biogeographical distributions of marine organisms, monitoring large-scale change across coastal marine systems has proven difficult. Since 2021, the Hakai Institute, McGill University, and many many partners have conducted a coast-wide biogeographic observatory using eDNA called the Pacific eDNA Coastal Observatory (PECO). This observatory constitutes a coordinated single time-point latitudinal cross-section of eDNA collections within a single habitat type (seagrass beds), from which we are assessing broad-scale biogeographical distributions of marine biodiversity. This project is endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainability, and is part of the Ocean Biomolecular Observation Network.
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