Gowanus eDNA

…surprisingly diverse DNA evidence–19 fish species–in the Canal, including the endangered shortnose sturgeon. The project is featured on Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Instagram page The summary slide is also here….

Sewage archives

…practicalities, of implementing this type of biological archiving in a 2021 article in BMC Infectious Diseases, Archiving time series sewage samples as biological records of built environments.  While interest in 2021, centers…

Microbial diversity

Images from “Is Global Microbial Biodiversity Increasing, Decreasing, or Staying the Same?” David S. Thaler, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 19 April 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.565649 With alarms sounding about the declining…

Biology in Art

…courtrooms in the 1990s. By 2021 DNA forensics and related genealogy have become a formidable part of the tool kit of criminal investigation.  Beyond the legal domain, the natural sciences…

Oceans

Humans in the 19th century knew little about the oceans, but other forms of life knew a lot. Our job over the last two centuries has been to catch up…

The Scientific Enterprise

The Scientific Enterprise Science functions globally as a single club, a single cognitive formation, with a mix of experimental evidence, mathematics, and computation as its lingua franca. The excellent networks…