Andy Glusenkamp
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Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
I'll walk up to one of these and be totally unimpressed until I look down it, and then I get, you know, dizzy.
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
The mind starts to reel, just thinking about what's going on down there.
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
There's big water, but a lot of the water that moves in the aquifer is moving through essentially Swiss cheese.
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
It's more like a very large area of porous rock than a giant underground ocean.
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
Well, in the area around the discovery site, there aren't accessible portals to the aquifer.
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
So this is like the modern version of dropping a bucket in the well?
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
And then we push some preservative in, screw the caps on the filter.
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
eDNA is free-floating DNA shed by living organisms.
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
And it just stands for environmental DNA?
Unexplainable
The hunt for a lost species
And it could be airborne, soil-borne, or water-borne.