Field Research

Emma Steigerwald, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, moves in to collect a spider that will be used as part of the California Conservation genomics project (CCGP). A project focusing on Californian biodiversity and aiming to build the most comprehensive genomic dataset ever assembled for conservation science.

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Emma Steigerwald, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, collects spiders from vegetation for the California Conservation Genomics project. Going into the forest by night when spiders are active, she uses the stick to beat the vegetation causing all sorts of small invertebrates to fall on the sheet below - she then picks out the target species and releases the rest.

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Emma Steigerwald, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, collects spiders from vegetation for the California Conservation Genomics project. Going into the forest by night when spiders are active, she uses the stick to beat the vegetation causing all sorts of small invertebrates to fall on the sheet below - she then picks out the target species and releases the rest.

Emma Steigerwald, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, holds a captured spider that will be used as part of the California Conservation genomics project (CCGP). A project focusing on Californian biodiversity and aiming to build the most comprehensive genomic dataset ever assembled for conservation science.

Surveying Biodiversity

Biologists and members of a Peruvian Biodiversity survey observe and take photos of a enigmatic glass frog species as it perches on a leaf in the nighttime jungle. Boots on the ground research like this is critical to gathering baseline data on species' distributions, populations status and other trends to inform conservation work.

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Emma Steigerwald, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, collects spiders from vegetation for the California Conservation Genomics project. Going into the forest by night when spiders are active, she uses the stick to beat the vegetation causing all sorts of small invertebrates to fall on the sheet below - she then picks out the target species and releases the rest.