About me
Nicole Foster earned her PhD in Science from the University of Adelaide in 2021, where she developed a targeted environmental DNA (eDNA) capture approach to assess long-term change in coastal ecosystems. Since then, she has worked with Flinders University (Australia) using eDNA to determine the provenance of dust samples for forensic cases (2021-2022). She then worked with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) to coordinate a global project using eDNA and chemical analyses of water samples to link energy with the diversity of marine coastal ecosystems (2022-2023). She is currently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB), working with Dr Oscar Serrano and the Aquatic Macrophyte Ecology Group (GAME). Her work here will employ targeted environmental DNA methods to assess changes across the entire marine ecosystem over time, relating them to historical disturbance events through chemical analyses of sediment cores. Nicole’s research focuses on paleoecological reconstructions of marine habitats to better understand historical ecosystem changes.
Hobbies
Snorkelling, scuba diving, surfing, hiking, reading…
Scientific interests
Seagrass conservation, historical reconstructions, environmental DNA methods
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Link to ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-7391
