Ocean Predator Lab

Welcome to the new Ocean Predator Lab at
@ZSLScience!

For our first tweet, here is a short thread on who we are and what we do.

For more information on our work, check out our new website: oceanpredatorlab.com

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Lab training day at @ZSLScience with #OPL’s newest member, @UCLCBER MRes student @DuflotMelissa. Filtering, precipitation and DNA 🧬 extraction. Melissa is researching eDNA detection limits for Thornback Ray monitoring

Do you ever lie awake thinking about how we take water samples for #eDNA from a specific depth?

Worry no more!

Check out this video of a Niskin collection bottle in action and read @nick_dunn04's blog about our new eDNA paper! 🦈🧬

Read the blog here: tinyurl.com/OPLblog1

Taking part in the @SharkTrustUK #GreatEggcaseHunt during today’s #eDNA sampling for Project #SIARC 🦈

Kicking off #eDNA 🧬 sampling for Project #SIARC 🦈 this week in Camarthen Bay, is the weather always this good in Wales? ☀️