Another successful campaign. 100 sites sampled since the start of the project! 🫡

📍UKDNAWG25 

With this round, we have officially completed sampling for all four seasons in year one of the project! 

Huge thanks to Isobel for stepping in after one of our team members was sidelined by a hand injury earlier this month. 👀

Visiting some of our sites before sampling begins, joined by our friend and collaborator Frode Fossøy from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research 

Approaching our first fieldwork season

Busy day in the field, collecting eDNA samples at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork 🍂

Sampling session at Dublin Zoo alongside other 4th year students working on their projects involving eDNA analysis

Swampy Diatoms

Our first ever samples (of many more to come)