LBRN PI Dr. Kyle Piller received funding from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ($177,242) to conduct an environmental DNA survey of an imperiled species in north Louisiana.

Title: “Assessing the Conservation Status of the Western Sand Darter, Ammocrypta clara (Percidae) using both field and eDNA approaches”.

Funding period: January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023.

Dr. Piller is a PI for a full projects supported by LBRN (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2024). For more information about Dr. Piller with LBRN, see his project: https://lbrn.lsu.edu/pis/Piller_Kyle.html