How can modern genetic tools be used in conservation assessment and monitoring?

Conservation scientists want to be able to measure how much variation threatened populations have and monitor changes in variation over time, especially if they have done some sort of intervention to increase diversity in a population. NIMBioS hosted a workshop to try to advance our ability to use genetic tools to monitor this variation, and my research publications in Evolutionary Applications are a result.

RAD-seq in pipefish: a cautionary tale

At one point during my PhD my advisor joked that my dissertation could at least be titled, "RAD-seq in pipefish: a cautionary tale". Luckily, that didn't end up being the case, but my recently-published paper Substantial differences in bias between single-digest and double-digest RAD-seq: a case study comes pretty close.