2 from Pennsylvania chosen as Rhodes scholars
By RON TODT
Associated Press
Shea said she's most interested in a relatively new tool called environmental DNA, taking water samples and using genomic techniques to synthesize DNA.
"It gives a picture of what animals and organisms were in that part of the ocean," she said. "Researchers are using it to see how ecosystems are responding to human impacts."
One thing she hopes to keep doing in England is participation in a steel pan drumming group like the one she has been a part of at Stanford.
"Maybe I'll start one at Oxford," she said.
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