Biomonitoring is for everyone webinar with STREAM and Living Lakes Canada
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"Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Biomonitoring" Webinar Handout
This is a handout from our webinar, "Biomonitoring is for everyone: How project STREAM combines citizen science with DNA technology". Benthic macroinvertebrates are aquatic insects without a backbone that are used as biological indicators to assess the health of a waterbody. Biomonitoring is a method that combines citizen science with DNA technology to understand watershed health. The project STREAM uses DNA metabarcoding to identify taxa present in benthic macroinvertebrates.
"Biomonitoring is for everyone" webinar with STREAM and Living Lakes Canada
Barely noticeable to the naked eye, small bugs called benthic macroinvertebrates give us a window into the status of freshwater health. STREAM (Sequencing the Rivers for Environmental Assessment and Monitoring) uses DNA metabarcoding to analyze bulk samples of benthic macroinvertebrates from rivers across Canada – but this project isn’t only for researchers! STREAM produces data on river systems through community-based biomonitoring. Join the STREAM team for this free webinar and learn how you can monitor your local rivers!