Sonomi O. ’17, Anne G. ’17 and Julia Q.G. Roellke ’15 will have the distinct honor of presenting their scientific research at the Mohawk Watershed Symposium at Union College on March 17th. The ninth annual symposium, which is focused on the physical aspects of the Mohawk Watershed in New York State, is hosted by Union College’s Geology Department. The symposium will highlight the recent and on-going research work in the watershed through a variety of oral and poster presentations and technical sessions (see link to the full program agenda here).
Sonomi will present her research entitled, Evaluating the efficacy of environmental DNA (eDNA) as an early detection tool for the Mohawk Watershed’s newest aquatic invader, the bloody-red shrimp, Hemimysis anomala. Anne and Julia will present their research work, entitled Early detection and range expansion of the Mohawk watershed’s newest aquatic invader, the bloody red shrimp: A citizen science and survey-based approach. The abstracts for both of these presentations can be found at the end of this post.
Sonomi, Anne and Julia collaborated with their fellow research scholars, including primary investigators Drs. Brent Boscarino (PDS) and Meghan Brown (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) and Dr. Michael Tibbetts (Bard College) as part of a dual Finger Lakes Partnership for Invasive Species Management (FL-PRISM) and Great Lakes Research Consortium-funded project aimed at developing effective methods to help with the early detection, rapid response and potential control of a new Hudson/Mohawk River watershed aquatic invasive species, the bloody red shrimp, Hemimysis anomala. Other research students involved in Drs. Boscarino, Tibbetts and Brown’s on-going research who contributed immensely to these efforts include Chris C. ’17, Ava F. ’19, Leif G. ’18, Erik H. ’18, Johnson L. ’17, Kate M. ’17, Logan R. ’18, Mattison W. ’18 and PDS alums Mia Foucek ’16, Jesse Held ’15, Lucy ReBack ’16 and Elinor Stapylton ’16.
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