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About me
Nicole Foster graduated from her PhD in sciences from the University of Adelaide in 2021, where she developed a targeted capture environmental DNA (eDNA) approach to assess long-term change in coastal ecosystems. She has since worked with Flinders University in Adelaide to use eDNA to determine the provenance of dust samples for forensic casework (2021-2022). She then worked with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre to coordinate a world-wide project using eDNA and chemical analyses of water samples to relate energy to diversity of marine coastal ecosystems (2022-2023). Currently, she is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB) working with Dr. Oscar Serrano and the Group of Aquatic Macrophyte Ecology (GAME). Her work here will employ targeted environmental DNA methods to assess whole marine ecosystem changes through time, relating these to historical disturbance events using chemical analyses of soil cores. Nicole’s research focuses on paleo-ecological reconstructions of marine habitats to better understand historical ecosystem changes.
Hobbies
Snorkelling, diving, surfing, hiking, reading…
Scientific Interests
Seagrass conservation, historical reconstructions, environmental DNA methods
