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Next Generation: Lauren Rodriguez on Using Environmental DNA in the Chesapeake Bay
February 27, 2022
My current research focuses on monitoring biodiversity patterns in the Chesapeake Bay using noninvasive environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling. I like to call it “environmental forensics.”

Next Generation: Maddy Lahm on marine carbon cycling
February 24, 2022
"As human activity continues to affect biogeochemical processes and release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it is important to try to understand the oceanic carbon storage capacity as our planet continues to change."

Next Generation: Amber Fandel on tracking the movement of marine mammals
January 24, 2022
"Understanding these behaviors and movements are important because it will help us manage, and hopefully protect them from, potential disturbances in the future."

Next Generation: Fisheries research with Ben Frey
January 18, 2022
After working on a new way to the determine the age of fish, graduate student Ben Frey begins a Knauss Fellowship in NOAA’s National Ocean Services’ Marine Debris Program.

Cutting mercury inputs to lakes quickly reduces mercury in the fish we eat, say scientists
December 15, 2021
During the study conducted over 15 years, scientists from the U.S. and Canada intentionally added a traceable form of mercury to a small remote research lake and its watershed. They discovered that the new mercury they added quickly built up in fish populations, and then declined almost as quickly once they stopped the additions.

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