Dirt: Biogeography of the Pacific Crest Trail

EXHIBITION OPENING 5-7pm May 1st, UCLA Art|Science Gallery, CNSI 5149

This is a collaborative project by Christina Agapakis and Ellie Harmon, supported by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. While hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Ellie collected samples of dirt throughout California and sent them to Christina's lab. They extracted DNA from the bacteria living in the dirt and sequenced the 16S ribosomal RNA to identify what species of bacteria were there. Click on a name to see a summary of where we found that genus of bacteria.

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PCT GPS tracks compressed and adapted from the Halfmile Project data. Please consider a donation to the PCTA!

Hosting by github. Source available at github/el-ee/dirt-map. Maps made possible by leaflet and leaflet-gpx.