Hello colleagues: This was shared several weeks ago, but just wanted to send out a last call for your support. Please share or donate if you can - we will name a turtle after you!
My colleagues and I recently launched a crowdfunding effort for a turtle conservation genomics study (available here: https://experiment.com/turtle-climate-change-genes). As next-generation sequencing technologies become more affordable, we can now begin to answer challenging ecological questions about the role of adaptive genetic variation in shaping species' responses to environmental change. With that in mind, our goal is to use next-generation sequencing to quantify adaptive genetic variation in two species of turtles in Wisconsin (the Blanding's Turtle and Snapping Turtle). This work could have real conservation implications for these two species, and can be accomplished fairly inexpensively. However, we first need to raise the funds necessary to do this work, which can be challenging as funding sources become more scarce. We feel that crowdfunding could really bridge this gap, and have raised 37% of our funding goal in a few weeks. However, we only have seven days left, and could use your help getting this project funded! If you can, we would appreciate your support for this work. If you are unable to donate, sharing helps too - so please consider spreading the word about this effort! Again, you can find the project page here: https://experiment.com/turtle-climate-change-genes. All the best, -Nathan Byer
