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AT: Texas Waters Webinar
January 16, 2019 @ 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Advance training opportunity with Texas Waters Webinar.
“ABCs of Apple Snails and eDNA”
Wednesday January 16, 6:30pm – 7:30pm CDT
About the speaker:
Dr. Romi Burks, Professor of Biology at Southwestern University, researches a group of highly diverse freshwater mollusks called apple snails. Her research efforts focus on collaborative efforts with undergraduate students in the area of molecular ecology. Apple snails earned their name because they can reach the size of an apple. In Texas, one species, Pomacea maculata (formerly P. insularum), occurs as a non-native, invasive species with native populations in South America. This talk will discuss how detection of environmental DNA, the often invisible material that an organism sloughs off into the environment, can shape management decisions of non-native species.
Greetings everyone,
The first 2019 Texas Waters Webinar is only a week away! The webinar will be held Wednesday, January 16 from 6:30pm-7:30 CDT. Romi will be speaking on apple snails in relation to Chapter One: Texas Aquatic Habitats and the Species They Support of the Texas Waters: Exploring Water and Watershed curriculum.
If you would like to register to attend the live webinar, you can click this link or anywhere on the banner image above. If you are unable to attend the live presentation, the recorded webinar and associated PowerPoint will be available for download from the Texas Waters Specialist Page after the event.
Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Melissa Alderson, MAT
Conservation Education Manager
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Melissa.Alderson@tpwd.texas.gov
(512) 389-8060 Work
(512) 217-5366 Cell