The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising.
John Muir
Below are some current topics being studied in the lab. Click on titles to read about the projects.
The Ecology of Environmental DNA (eDNA) and its effects on River Otter detections
Sydney Waloven is currently working on this project. Click the link above to learn more!
Developing an environmental DNA assay to detect the Fisher at Rice Creek
Caroline Sheldon is currently working on this project. Click the link above to learn more!
Developing genomic resources for Bog turtle conservation
Lillian Pavord is currently working on this project. Click the link above to learn more!
Characterizing crayfish diversity at Rice Creek
Sayuri Pacheco and Andrew Nearbin are currently working on this project.
How did Rainbow smelt colonize the Great Lakes? Testing Bergstadt’s 1983 hypothesis
Dr. Sard is currently working on a RAD-seq project to help answer this questions with USGS collaborators.
Do Rainbow smelt morphometrically display two ecotypes in Lake Ontario?
Dr. Sard is currently looking for a student to work on this project.
About
Dr. Nick Sard is an evolutionary ecologist that studies questions related to the conservation of native species in the Great Lakes using genetics-based techniques.
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