Science Archives - Discover Life in America

DNA barcoding confirms firefly species in the park

February 15, 2024
Jaimie Matzko
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Read it in the “Word from the Smokies” in the Asheville Citizen Times! Anyone who watches murder mystery TV shows or listens to true-crime podcasts has probably heard of the use of DNA analysis in forensic science to exonerate or implicate a suspect. But what if DNA analysis could also […]

iScience Spotlight- Signal Mountain Middle School with iScience Educator, Kim Brown

September 16, 2022
Jaimie Matzko
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Citizen Science, Discoveries, Partners, Science

The iScience program is one of the most rewarding programs that I coordinate with Discover Life in America. If you are not familiar with this program, it is program that we have partnered with the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA on to provide materials and resources to educators of 5th to […]

Smokies Nonprofit Invites Public to Participate in Smokies Most Wanted

February 26, 2022
Will Kuhn
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Citizen Science, Discoveries, Science

Gatlinburg, TN – Discover Life in America, the nonprofit research partner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is inviting the public to participate in its latest project, Smokies Most Wanted, an initiative that allows visitors to help conserve park species by recording sightings of animals, plants and other organisms from […]

Blue ghosts: spirits of the forest

August 22, 2019
Gus Elmore
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Global Issues, Internships, Science

Blue ghosts magical and mysterious fireflies that create eerie blue trails of light on southern Appalachian nights.

A Day at Conservation Fisheries

July 6, 2018
Elgin Akin
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#20YearsDiscovering, Internships, Science

DLIA interns toured the facility of Conservation Fisheries, a Knoxville based non-profit “dedicated to the preservation of aquatic biodiversity.” The work of Conservation Fisheries focuses on the dozens of diminutive, and sometimes colorful, freshwater fish species found throughout rivers and streams of the southeast. These fish have become imperiled due […]