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SCCWRP member agencies to help inform development of national eDNA strategy CTAG will host an all-day workshop next month to identify constraints and challenges associated with incorporating environmental DNA (eDNA) methods into aquatic monitoring programs nationwide – the latest in a ... More |
Consensus reached on priority recommendations for supporting development of national eDNA A federal task force that includes SCCWRP has reached agreement on the technical and management actions that will need to be taken to support development of a coordinated national strategy ... More |
Webinar series highlights eDNA methods, applications for environmental monitoring The California Water Quality Monitoring Council and its partners have launched a six-part webinar series to educate managers and other interested parties on how environmental DNA (eDNA) methods can be ... More |
eDNA-based methods being developed to identify endangered, invasive freshwater species SCCWRP and its partners have begun developing methods for monitoring Southern California endangered and invasive freshwater species by detecting the DNA they shed into their environment, known as environmental DNA ... More |
Workshop works to transition eDNA methods to managers More than 300 researchers and environmental managers gathered at SCCWRP and online during a national scientific workshop in September to coordinate and advance strategies for transitioning DNA-based methods for identifying ... More |
Marine eDNA decay rates to be measured to support development of DNA-based monitoring SCCWRP and its partners have launched a three-year study to measure how rapidly the DNA that marine organisms shed into their environment decays in ocean water under different environmental conditions ... More |
SCCWRP asked to host national workshop on transitioning eDNA to management applications SCCWRP has been asked to host a national scientific workshop next year focused on helping water-quality managers make use of the DNA that aquatic organisms shed into their environment – ... More |
Bight partnerships to expand understanding of acidification The Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program is partnering with three other West Coast marine monitoring groups this summer to produce the most comprehensive picture to date of how ocean ... More |
SCCWRP guiding development of DNA-based stream bioassessment programs in Alaska SCCWRP has begun working with the federal Bureau of Land Management in Alaska to build capacity to evaluate the health of waterways using DNA-based tools for conducting routine bioassessment work. ... More |
Algae DNA being sequenced to build molecular version of stream health scoring tool SCCWRP and its partners have begun sequencing the DNA of hundreds of stream algae samples in preparation for building a molecular version of the statewide Algal Stream Condition Index scoring ... More |
Draft protocols developed for standardizing DNA-based sampling, analysis methods A statewide workgroup led by SCCWRP that has been working to standardize DNA-based sampling and analysis methods for routine aquatic monitoring applications has released its first set of draft protocols ... More |
Pilot study incorporates eDNA identification methods into routine stream monitoring SCCWRP and its partners have shown in a proof-of-concept study that regional stream monitoring programs can be used to track endangered and invasive aquatic species using the environmental DNA – ... More |
DNA-based methods for identifying algae shown to be reliable, possibly more insightful SCCWRP and its partners have shown in a proof-of-concept study that using DNA methods to conduct algae-based assessments of stream health offers a reliable, cost-effective alternative to traditional biological assessment ... More |
DNA-based algae identification methods show promise for stream condition assessments SCCWRP and its partners have shown in a proof-of-concept study that DNA sequencing methods have the potential to be incorporated into algae-based assessments of stream condition. During the multi-year study ... More |
New workgroup to standardize DNA-based methods for routine aquatic monitoring The California Water Quality Monitoring Council has formed a statewide workgroup to be led by SCCWRP that will examine how to bring greater consistency and standardization to DNA-based analysis methods ... More |
Effort launched to develop West Coast DNA barcoding library for marine invertebrates The Smithsonian Institute has partnered with SCCWRP, the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program and the Western Association of Marine Labs to begin developing a DNA barcoding library that ... More |
Agreement reached on DNA processing, analysis methods for stream food webs study The technical advisory group for a study examining how ecological stress alters the complexity and interconnectedness of stream food webs has reached agreement on the DNA processing and analysis methods ... More |
Study sheds light on how to improve DNA sequencing analysis methods to ID organisms SCCWRP and its partners have completed a two-year study shedding light on best-practices approaches for analyzing raw DNA sequencing data to identify the organisms present in an environmental sample, the ... More |
Stream food webs to be examined in study to better integrate stream assessment tools SCCWRP and its partners have launched a three-year effort to better integrate stream condition assessment tools in California by examining how ecological stress alters the complexity and interconnectedness of stream ... More |
Algae-based stream scoring tool to be finalized this fall An assessment tool that will score the ecological health of California wadeable streams by analyzing algal communities is scheduled to be finalized and published as early as this fall. The ... More |
DNA sequencing used to identify larval fish SCCWRP and its partners have completed a proof-of-concept study showing that DNA sequencing methods can be used to identify communities of ichthyoplankton, or the eggs and larvae of fish, collected ... More |
Initial development work completed for algae-based stream scoring tool SCCWRP and its partners have completed initial development work on an assessment tool that will score the ecological health of California wadeable streams by analyzing the condition of in-stream algal ... More |
SCCWRP begins documenting persistence of eDNA in stream environments SCCWRP has completed a pilot study examining how long the environmental DNA signal of an organism lingers in a stream following the removal of the source organism, part of an ... More |
Sampling completed for ichthyoplankton project SCCWRP and two of its member agencies completed field sampling in June for a project that will evaluate DNA-based methods for identifying ichthyoplankton, which are the eggs and larvae of ... More |
Method comparison study seeks to assess utility of using DNA to identify stream algae SCCWRP and its partners have launched a first-of-its-kind study to determine whether DNA-based methods can reliably be used to identify algae in wadeable streams across California, a finding that could ... More |