Hi I'm on an EARPF not PRFB but I would love to join the slack if that's okay!

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It was happy to see all these humans at #AGU24

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And in case you thought it was all sunshine and tropical oceans, here's first author Scott Baker hard at work on the less glamorous side of marine eDNA - endless seawater filtering 🫠

This is a great application of eDNA methodology - beaked whales are fascinating but mysterious and challenging to study, spending most of their time at great depth. It was a privilege to see them in the beautiful Bahamas!

Quantification by droplet digital PCR and species identification by metabarcoding of environmental (... Detection and identification of species, subspecies or stocks of whales, dolphins and porpoises at sea remain challenging, particularly for cryptic or elusive species like beaked whales (Family: Ziphi...

I'm pleased to have played a small role in this exciting paper - coordinating passive acoustic detection and eDNA to detect Blainsville's beaked whales and expanding our understanding of their diversity by three new haplotypes!