May 23rd, 2023
QUBS Director Steve Lougheed and colleagues Shelley Arnott, Dongmei Chen, Brian Cumming, Hugh Lui (University of Toronto) along with collaborators Yuxiang Wang, and personnel at the River Institute, Thousand Islands National Park, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, First Nations Technical Institute, and Invasive Species Centre received three years of funding from NSERC (Alliance Option 2 program) to develop new eDNA and drone imaging approaches to monitoring aquatic ecosystems: Project title: New genomics and aerial drone tools for monitoring, managing, and mitigating threats in aquatic ecosystems