Science in the City

At school on Tuesday, we had many, but not all of the components we needed to run the DNA extraction as I had done at james Cook University. Instead of ethanol, we had access to the less drink-able ethanol. There was no TBE to elute the DNA, so we had to use warm [...]

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The seagrass collected in Tampa Bay sat in a bucket of seawater by the front door, tantalizing me with its pungent, sulfurous wafting. I would steal harried moments in passing to dangle a bit of it before attending to the next chore at hand. Finally, late the following night, I had an opportunity [...]

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After getting back to the states, it’s been all but impossible to reflect on the experience of the barcoding work recently undertaken in Australia. The pressure of school and home have left little time to make progress on anything not immediately and practically demanding my attention.
So when a quick trip back to Florida [...]

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