The School of Marine Sciences presents Dr. David Emerson Bigelow Laboratories The broad scale use of molecular-based methods to monitor ecosystem processes is opening new insights into marine ecosystem communities and processes and how we study them. In simplest terms, the basis for these approaches focuses on the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) collected directly […]
The School of Marine Sciences presents Dr. Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian Institute Most of the planet is ocean. For centuries its vastness stood in the way of scientific understanding and humancaused damage, but that has now changed. Marine scientists today can take advantage of technologies to understand life in the ocean in ways that were previously […]
The School of Marine Sciences presents Dr. Cynthia Jones Old Dominion University Since the 1800s, scientists noted that the hard parts of temperate water fish (scales or otoliths) recorded annular marks that could be used to study demography, much like taking a census for humans. Consequently, ecologists could analyze the age structure to determine birth […]
