Molecular Monitoring for Healthier AQUATIC Ecosystems
Ecosystem health assessment at your fingertips
Understanding the health of aquatic ecosystems is a critical first step towards effective management or restoration.
Effective monitoring provides vital data on waterbody condition, allowing for the detection of early signs of degradation or pollution.
Molecular techniques allow for monitoring programs that are faster, more efficient, and more scalable than ever before.
Trace Biomonitoring is here to help you implement your molecular monitoring projects.
Our Tools
Bacti-Trace
Bacteria to measure pollution
BACTI-TRACE determines whole microbial communities and makes it possible to determine the distribution of organic pollution in a waterbody, AND from what source it originates.
Phyta-Trace
Diatoms to understand health
PHYTA-TRACE uses single-celled algae called diatoms to assess the impact of pollution on your water body. When using health indices, this is a powerful tool to help you understand the status of your catchment.
Verte-Trace
Biodiversity in your catchment
VERTE-TRACE assesses the diversity of fish, mammals, birds, and other vertebrates living in and around your waterbody. Understanding the biodiversity in and around your catchment can help you target management.
Did you know?
Bacteria can be used to understand organic pollution sources.
Why is Trace tech so powerful?
Powerful Water Monitoring
The need to understand the sources and impact of freshwater pollution has never been greater. The power of DNA makes it possible to get critical information more efficiently than ever before. Trace Biomonitoring puts cutting-edge molecular molecular tools in your hands.
Cost Effective
Our kits collect a DNA sample, which can be used to analyses multiple groups of organisms, in a matter of minutes. This means that it is possible to collect significantly more samples per unit effort than using most traditional methods. The savings generated on staff time make catchment scale sampling campaigns a reality.
Faster Results = Faster Action
Information and data is powerful. Using our Bacti, Phyta and Verti-Trace kits will provide you with the data you need to inform action in your waterbody without having to spend months making sense of analyses. Faster tests for faster action.
User Friendly and Scalable
Our are kits are optimised for use by "non-experts" making them especially well suited for use in citizen science-led monitoring campaigns. Our team of professionals is on passionate about making molecular monitoring accessible to everyone.
Our Services
Regardless of type of catchment or budget, the Trace team will work with you to design a project that will provide powerful insight into the health of your catchment. The cost of our services and kits decreases with the increasing number of samples your project requires - the more you order the lower the price per kit!
Contact us about additional discounts available for batching multiple services per sample.
Our Team
Trace Biomonitoring was founded by a group of scientists and engineers passionate about using innovative technology to improve the health of freshwater environments. We believe that the deployment of molecular tools should be accessible to all sectors and practitioners. The team is here to help with all stages of your projects from planning and implementation, through to interpretation and beyond.
Strategy Director
Science Director
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Pre-Project Consultation
Free consultation with our expert scientists will help you map out the best path forward for your project, outlining the exact costs, steps and kit types necessary for achieving optimal catchment health insight. Just submit your email above or message us at the address below and get in touch!