Monitoring the Health of Our World's Oceans

What happens when you combine the power of genomics with the dedication of citizen scientists at scale? You create powerful datasets to understand and improve the health of our world’s oceans. 

That’s exactly what Xavier Pochon from the Cawthron Institute and the Citizens of The Sea project aims to do – outfitting seafaring vessels across the South-West Pacific region with environmental DNA (eNDA) sample collection kits and pairing it with the sequencing expertise of Sequench laboratory in New Zealand.

See more of their work here.

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