Name: Environmental DNA: what land stewards want to know about this new technique
Start: 2025-03-01T13:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T14:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation.

Saturday March 1, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm CST

Room 49

Environmental DNA (eDNA) has been used in aquatic systems since the mid-1980s. New developments mean that scientists are using eDNA in terrestrial and aquatic environments for monitoring, locating rare species, detecting invasive species, researching species relationships, and exploring species diversity. This talk will explore how the Field Museum is exploring eDNA applications in the Chicago Region and highlight some promising future applications. While also identifying the challenges of over-relying on any new methodology.

Presenters

Aster Hasle

Lead Conservation Ecologist, Field Museum

Aster Hasle is a Lead Conservation Ecologist with the Field Museum's Keller Science Action Center. Aster brings their ecology and Geographic Information Systems background to the Action Center's Chicago Region Conservation Programs. Recent projects include a monarch community science... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm CST
Room 49

Stewardship & Ecology, General

Session Session Block D: 1:15 - 2 PM

Wild Things 2025

Aster Hasle

Attendees (106)

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