Sewage archives

…2016). A video of this experiment may be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8 From DS Thaler and TP Sakmar, Archiving time series sewage samples as biological records of built environments. BMC Infectious Diseases 21(601)…

Precision agriculture in Wall Street Journal

…greenhouses are another important story, another big step toward what in the 1980s we started calling Landless Agriculture. This National Geographic story 2017 shows the importance of greenhouses.  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/ ….

Fish DNA Barcode CBS morning show

…Stoeckle appeared on the CBS Morning Show discussing “Shocking Sushi Secrets” based on Kate and Louisa Straus’ study of fish identity using DNA barcoding.  The 4-minute video is at: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4377085n%253fsource=search_video…

National Geographic on eDNA

An article by Steve Leahy for National Geographic about our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA New DNA tool ‘changes everything in marine science’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/edna-environmental-dna-counts-fish-changes-marine-science/ Also in the news net:…

NYCFish (“Sushi-gate”): identifying marketplace fish

…officially adopted DNA barcoding for detection of seafood fraud https://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/Product-SpecificInformation/Seafood/DNAspeciation/default.htm More on “Sushi-gate” Among 60 items tested: Nile Perch (Africa), Lavender Jobfish (SE Asia), Slender Pinjalo (SE Asia), and Acadian Redfish (N Atlantic) sold as “Red Snapper“…

Publications

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