fieldwork

eDNA Monitoring and Jellyfish

Cheryl L. Ames from the US Naval Research Laboratory presented at London Calling 2019 on “Field-forward sequencing with Oxford Nanopore technology – a strategy to establish the upside-down mangrove jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana as a bioindicator.” They emphasized the biodiversity of the ocean is largely unexplored… and also threatened by climate change and overfishing. Environmental DNA […]
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Fieldwork to Study Mangrome Microbial Diversity

Felipe Baez Aguirre from the University of the Andes in Colombia presented a session entitled “On-site nanopore sequencing reveals microbial diversity of a Colombian Pacific Coast mangrove soils” at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston. Baez Aguirre spoke about the location of the studies. They had limited access to electricity in the Bahia Malaga. The […]
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Helping Everyone Dress for Success

Tonight I watched the Lilly Conference Online 2022 session “Dressing for Success: Implementing a Professional Clothes Closet to Reduce Barriers to Student Achievement in a Professional Environment” by Sarah Marie Berry (Winthrop University), Tammy Burnham (Winthrop University), and Mary Slade (Towson University). Their objectives for this recorded twenty-minute session were to discuss common barriers to […]
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