…high school project competition about environment issues, with her project on censusing threatened salamanders with eDNA (slide deck). See the full list of awardees here. Samara’s 11-minute video is here….
On 15 may 2008 an international assembly of bee experts gathered at York University and announced a new initiative to DNA barcode world’s bees. Some snippets from news reports: “According…
In Pacific Fishing September 2008 (issue available on newstands, not yet on web) two New York City teenagers, Kate Stoeckle (my daughter!), 19, and classmate Louisa Strauss, 18, apply DNA-based…
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) & SCAR-Marine Biodiversity Information Network BIOGEOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN was released in late August 2014. See three news stories below. The…
…barcode science and organizational news? A bright answer arrived in today’s email: the first issue of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Bulletin (download pdf or view online flash version)….
…Wheeler, 2005) (this key made popular news as 3 of newly described beetles were named in tribute to then current US government officials–A. bushi, A. cheneyi, A. rumsfeldi). As is…
…oxidase I), Marko et al found that 77% of Red Snapper filets sold in eastern USA consumer markets were mislabelled. More than half of the analysed sequences grouped closely with…
Fox TV reported 23 February 2010 in their evening news on the discoveries of the DNA House project of Brenda Tan and Matt Cost in a well-composed video by reporter…
…from olive oil to juice) recognizes the contribution of the student team of Catherine Gamble, Rohan Kirpekar, and Grace Young working with Mark Stoeckle in an excellent video segment (RU…
…photographs, it was not possible to identify the exact species, in this case whether this was an Allen’s (S. sasin) or Rufous (S. rufus), species native to the western U.S….