Friday, September 5, 2008

A New Perspective on Yosemite: Under the Rocks, Little Creatures

Alejandro MirĂ³ Co remembers his parents, both doctors, telling him not to play in the dirt – he’d get sick. He’s come a long way from those days to his current work in the UC Merced Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, turning over rocks in the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, looking for aquatic macroinvertebrates to catalog using ultra-modern DNA barcoding techniques.

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