Oakland High School Students and their teacher, Katie Noonan, helped Dr. Richard Bailey at the Lake Merritt Institute identify a new snail that appeared in the lake in 2005 -- with the help of DNA science! The OUSD school group contacted Dr. Ryan Kelly (an Oakland native) then at the American Museum of Natural History who extracted and analysed the DNA sequences from the snails collected by the children. Their work contributed to a public presentation.
Oakland High School Students and their teacher, Katie Noonan, helped Dr. Richard Bailey at the Lake Merritt Institute identify a new snail that appeared in the lake in 2005 -- with the help of DNA science! The OUSD school group contacted Dr. Ryan Kelly (an Oakland native) then at the American Museum of Natural History who extracted and analysed the DNA sequences from the snails collected by the children. Their work contributed to a public presentation.
Presentation by students and Mrs. Noonan 2013
Student notebook drawings of a bubble snail - 2001
Tree constructed by Dr. Kelly 2013 identifies snail.
2001 mystery snail - never identified, and now gone!
Students on a snail hunt.