DNA sequencing means a scientist can take a bucket of seawater and ID every fish in the area. Now we need a universal ‘biobank’ of samples to make a truly powerful environment monitoring tool.
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If you’re committed to a belief, it’s hard to let go. Psychology and philosophy provide different ways to think about how skeptics respond to counterevidence.
We cannot spot every shark in the ocean. But we can detect their ‘environmental DNA’.
Food fraud is a common problem that technologies such as blockchain and DNA fingerprinting can help to solve.
By 2167, DNA barcoding scans will lead to weather-style “biodiversity forecasts,” enabling us to more easily protect and care for the environment.
Animals shed bits of DNA as they go about their lives. A new study of the Hudson River estuary tracked spring migration of ocean fish by collecting water samples and seeing whose DNA was present when.
Scientists are pioneering a new way of monitoring water species, using techniques more familiar to fans of crime scene TV shows.
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Leader, Environomics Future Science Platform, CSIRO
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Postdoctoral associate, University of Florida
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Honarary Professor in Environmental Genomics, University of Otago
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Professor of Environmental Genomics, Curtin University
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Adjunct Research Scientist in Marine Bioscience, University of Florida
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Senior Research Scientist in Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Southern Cross University
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CSIRO
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Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate in the Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University
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Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Research Fellow, Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford
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Professor in Molecular Ecology, Bangor University
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Professor of Marine Biodiversity, Liverpool John Moores University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Hull