Michael Spear joined the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) as a postdoctoral researcher in February 2021. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame before earning his Ph.D. studying invasive species, environmental DNA, and lake food web ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked on environmental conservation and education with the John G. Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum of Natural History, and Loyola University in Chicago.
For this week's seminar, Dr. Spear will be speaking on Environmental DNA (eDNA) for the management of lakes and rivers.
The live stream of Dr. Spear's talk will be at https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/0_95vb8dw3
