Collaborations

As a steering committee member, Kat has actively been involved in the establishment of this new forum for bringing biodiversity into the core of UK business decision making for achieving net gain and promoting sustainable use of nature.

We are one of the founding partners in NatureSpace an innovative business which develops win-win habitat banking solutions for Great Crested Newts. NautreMetrics provide GCN analyses to support the development of habitat models for District Level Licencing and evaluating the success of newly created GCN habitat via the Newt Conservation Partnership.

We have a commercial partnership with Aquabiota, with whom we have delivered over 40 projects in Swedish Freshwater ecosystems, in the Baltic Sea and in the Arctic for clients including Offshore Wind, Hydro Power and Local Government.

Together with the Business and Biodiversity team at Fauna and Flora International, we have recently established a working group on the use of DNA-based tools for monitoring success in achieving Net Positive Impact for biodiversity in industry projects. Members include major extractives companies and leading biodiversity consultancies.

We are working with Bardsley’s tech team; Bx on a pilot soil project to develop commercial agricultural applications related to the soil microbiome.

The Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit USA aims to drive change through peer-to-peer sharing, partnership and collaboration by providing a neutral platform for all stakeholders to enable open, constructive and educational discussions to futher progress towards the transition to regenerative practices

Sara Peixoto’s PhD on eDNA methods for detecting and monitoring Zebra Mussels.

Rosie Dowell’s CASE studentship on developing eDNA methods for marine biomonitoring in the Indian Ocean.

Physalia Chua’s PhD studentship under the Plant ID project, developing metabarcoding and mitochondrial metagenomics methods for understanding the diet of capercaillies.

Jamila Jamal’s MSc on eDNA-based monitoring of fish for evaluation of community-led marine protected areas in Inhambane Bay, Mozambique

A PhD studentship on understanding restoration pathways using ecoacoustics and eDNA for coastal rewilding and food security. Due to start in 2021.

Our Co-Founder, Dr Kat Bruce, is leading the working group on field and laboratory methods, which brings together the knowledge and expertise of several hundred researchers from across Europe.

A collaborative project funded by the Swedish EPA and led by our partners AquaBiota, along with INBO, MIX Research, Limnordic AB, MoRe Research and the University of Hull. The aim is to develop standardised methods for long term monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Sweden, with globally relevant learnings.

Our Co-Founder, Dr Kat Bruce, is a steering group member alongside other regulators and academics in the UK, and we regularly participate in and present at the UK DNA Working Group meetings.

eBioAtlas is an ambitious partnership between NatureMetrics and IUCN to rapidly create a global atlas of life in the world’s river basins and wetlands using cutting-edge eDNA technology. It will provide a comprehensive picture of freshwater species, mobilising local stakeholders and citizen scientists to fill in critical knowledge gaps to support conservation efforts and inform global policy to reverse the loss of biodiversity.

Along with the University of Hull and University of Highlands and Islands, we developed an international citizen science project that aims to profiling the fish communities of 1000 rivers around the North Atlantic, and we are currently 15 % of the way to achieving our target.

We are working with ARBRE to develop methods for surveying marine mammals in the Indian Ocean, specifically in the waters surrounding La Reunion.

We have partnered with WCS Mozambique to develop a long-term monitoring strategy for Niassa National Reserve using eDNA for vertebrate biodiversity assessment. We have also worked together on Phase 1 of a GCRF-funded project on coastal marine biodiversity in Mozambique, with phase 2 due to start in 2021 subject to confirmation of funding.

Our collaborator Dr Bettina Thalinger is using the NatureMetrics eDNA filters for Citizen Science project in Canada.

We are working together with Dr Jeremy Biggs and Dr Naomi Ewald at Freshwater Habitats Trust, and Dr Stewart Clarke at National Trust on the development of a national-scale citizen science programme for biodiversity assessment of small water bodies.

We have an MOU with FFI to support the conservation of species under threat in West Africa.