The final salmon fry samples of the year were just collected in western Iceland. One year old fry are being sampled for signatures of genetic introgression of aquaculture salmon following an escape event in Patreksfjörður in 2023. Video is from Kjallakstaðaá by Fellsströnd.
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Síðustu erfðasýnatökur ársins úr laxseiðum eru nú í gangi á Vesturlandi. Verið er að safna eins árs seiðum til að skoða umfang erfðablöndunar í kjölfar stroksins í Kvígindisdal í Patreksfirði 2023. Myndskeið frá Kjallakstaðaá og Tunguá (Galtardalsá) við Fellsströnd.
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The collective plight of token Icelanders in groups asked to field "is this true" questions about Iceland:

Strikamerkjagreining á hvatbera DNA, einangrað um borð á meðan leiðangri stóð, sýnir pólhverfa útbreiðslu tegundarinnar. Minna en 1% munur sást á milli allra sýnistöku staða, frá Noregshafi alla leið yfir til Kanada.

Mitochondrial barcoding of DNA extracted onboard during the expedition revealed circumpolar connectivity of the species, with intraspecific sequence similarity >99% across all sample sites, from Norwegian water across to Canada.

The first article from last year's expedition on the famous Polarstern that I participated in has been published.
The amphipod species Amathillopsis spinigera was found for the first time during this expedition in the 25 year sampling history of the Fram Strait.
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Fyrsta grein frá leiðangrinum í fyrra á Þýska ísbrjótnum Polarstern sem ég tók þátt í er komin út.
Marflóategundin Amathillopsis spinigera fannst í fyrsta sinn í þessum leiðangri á 25 ára sýnistökuferli um Fram sundið.
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I was fortunate enough to get to attend the Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference in Italy this month. Amazing to meet, reconnect, and hear from so many amazing researchers from just about all over the world working on the dynamics of ecological and evolutionary change.

After a very informative and productive meeting with researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Nature Research #NINA in Trondheim on hybridization between wild and farm raised salmon, I'm heading down to the University of Oslo #UiO to work on Cod genomics! Really enjoying my time in Norway so far.

Felt honored to get to introduce one of the plenary speakers: Dr. Lisa Levin, distinguished Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in California, who has been a vanguard of deep sea biological exploration and observation for decades.

The 56th European Marine Biology Symposium just wrapped up here in Reykjavík! Researchers from across 25 countries came and presented on topics ranging from systems ecology to geochemistry to genomic methodologies. About a third of the presentations were from local researchers here in Iceland!