Is It Easier to Collect Diatoms Than You Think?

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You don't just get to ask a machine like, hey, what's in there? Machines are great, but your brain is one of the machines, and it has to figure out exactly what to tell the other machines to look for via primers. So those primers, and you can call em oligo nuclea tides for short, are single strands of diana or arna,. maybe a dozen or two nucleatides long. And figuring out which geans to use in those primers can be tricky.

Yep -- it’s detective work! But instead of crime scenes, environmental scientist, marine biologist and Forensic Ecologist Dr. Tiara Moore travels the world to sample the sea and the soil looking for the ghosts of larvae past, whispers of frog spit, fungal traces in loamy soil, and the unseen forces that lead to algal blooms and toxic tides. She also is the CEO of #BlackInMarineScience week, which is NOW: Nov. 28-Dec. 04! Follow that hashtag and see the events link below and buckle your life jacket to a spirited chat about finding your calling on tropical seas, labwork, forest fungus, Missy Elliot, sedimentary soil science, straight up racism, the state of allyship, marine science careers, and whether or not she may have found evidence of Bigfoot. I mean.

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