{"id":17102,"date":"2024-09-18T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=17102"},"modified":"2024-09-18T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:00:53","slug":"sea-cucumbers-edna-new-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/sea-cucumbers-edna-new-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"From sea cucumbers to environmental DNA research, new Eckerd College marine science professor brings unique opportunities for students"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”17121″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Assistant Professor of Marine Science Emily Lancaster in the tide pools of Maine. 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They took in the usual favorites\u2014the dolphin, penguin and beluga whale exhibits.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]But for Lancaster, the star attractions were farther down on the cute scale\u2014sea slugs and especially sea cucumbers, an animal that when threatened can expel its guts, which later regrow.<\/p>\n

Any animal that can pull that off and survive, she reasoned, is worth studying.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s where my interest in marine science started,\u201d says Lancaster, who is beginning her first semester of teaching at Eckerd. Born in San Diego and raised in Reno, Nevada, when she was looking for a college to attend, she applied to Eckerd and was accepted. 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And when I read what they were looking for, they were describing me. I felt like I had come full circle. It was a very magical experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

After receiving a Bachelor of Science in biology from Pepperdine University, Lancaster earned her Master of Science in marine science from San Diego State University and her Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Maine. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at Southern Maine Community College, and among her peer-reviewed publications (under her maiden name, Emily R. Pierce), is a 2024 article with Markus Frederich titled \u201cTemperature Thresholds of Crustaceans in the Age of Climate Change<\/a>,\u201d which appeared in\u00a0Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This fall, she is teaching \u201cBiological Oceanography\u201d and \u201cMarine Invertebrate Biology.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”lg_text” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Her research will include students and will center on environmental DNA, which is DNA collected from the environment instead of an individual organism. Such eDNA is used as a tool to help detect endangered wildlife or invasive species that otherwise would go unseen.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]As for anticipated student involvement, \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have extra hands,\u201d Lancaster says. \u201cThe hope is that the students will eventually take ownership of a project of their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now though, she and husband Stephen and Tahoe, their cattle dog\u2013boxer mix, are adjusting to a new home and the seismic switch from a Maine to a Florida climate. \u201cIt\u2019s been a little chaotic,\u201d she admits. \u201cBut I always knew the Eckerd community is special. So many people here have offered to just sit down and have coffee and talk. It\u2019s been wonderful.<\/p>\n

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