A National-Scale Assessment of Mercury Bioaccumulation in United States National Parks Using Dragonfly Larvae As Biosentinels through a Citizen-Science Framework

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Using Dragonflies as Contamination Detectors

Scientific American - 60-Second Science, 24 Mar 2021

By collecting the larvae of the fast flyers, researchers have turned the insects into “biosentinels” that can track mercury…

Citizen-science project initiated at UMaine applied in National Parks nationwide

UMaine News, 24 Jul 2020

Citizen science is a powerful tool for assessing the risk of environmental contamination, according to a new assessment of a…

Dragonflies reveal mercury pollution levels across US national parks

Bioengineer, 22 Jul 2020

Local research project spurs first nationwide survey of the toxic…

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