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About Christian Duncan
In 2017, Christian Duncan waded waist-deep into the turbid currents of the Tennessee River’s Bear Creek during a historic drought, and discovered three previously undocumented darter species clinging to limestone crevices no wider than a pencil. That fieldwork reshaped how biologists model microhabitat resilience in fragmented river systems, leading to revised U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service flow recommendations for seven dam-controlled watersheds. His approach merges traditional net surveys with passive environmental DNA sampling from biofilm scraped off submerged mussel shells, a method he pioneered after noticing seasonal genetic signatures in sediment layers near spawning riffles. He doesn’t just catalog fish, he maps their silence: where they *aren’t* tells him more about dissolved oxygen gradients, legacy pesticide persistence, and land-use history than any count ever could. His notebooks are filled not with Latin names alone, but with water temperature logs scribbled beside handwritten sketches of gravel grain size and notes on the scent of wet silt after rain.
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