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Researcher flies the skies collecting airborne genetic material

Researcher flies the skies collecting airborne genetic material

Update: 2023-11-14
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Clemson faculty member Kimberly Metris is not just an academic but also a licensed commercial pilot. One day while piloting skydivers to their jump altitude, Metris could see the Saharan dust plume over Upstate South Carolina and had a research epiphany to see what genetic matter was flying around in the sky.  In this episode of Earthly, I talk to Metris about that epiphany, her work monitoring the skies for genetic matter, how she designed and constructed her own instrumentation, and what she found. She’ll also talk about next steps for her research.

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Researcher flies the skies collecting airborne genetic material

Researcher flies the skies collecting airborne genetic material

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