The 11th of February every year is the UN’s International Day for Women and Girls in Research.
We’d like to alert everyone, of course, but Diana Pazmiño, a marine biologist in the Galapagos, is currently very exciting because she’s doing e-DNA research.
E-DNA is about using DNA coding to track what is in the sea without seeing the animals or organisms with your own eyes. You can therefore, just by taking a water sample, read which fish are swimming there.
That’s her area of research, but she also spends a lot of time working with children and youth from the Galapagos to get them interested and aware of what’s happening in the ocean.
