CSRI research looks to the seafloor for answers about the past

Professor Kelsey Feser and John Lewis ’17 are working with samples of shells to discover more about once-living marine populations for their Cornell Summer Research Institute project.

They will date the shells using a technique called Amino Acid Racemization. The samples were removed from the seafloor to determine how those communities change over time and how humans have impacted that change.

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