Assistant Professor Ryan Kelly’s latest article, “Will More Better, Cheaper, and Faster Monitoring Improve Environmental Management?” has been published in Environmental Law Review, the law journal from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, OR (Volume 44, Number 4, 2014. pp. 1111-1147.)

In this article, Dr. Kelly addresses how the use of new technologies for genetic analysis allow for more powerful and more cost-effective environmental data collection, and the impacts that data will have on management decisions and practices.

Dr. Kelly, who is both an attorney and biologist, said that he sees “part of my job as linking science with policy, and publishing analyses specifically targeted at those different audiences is a way I can make this idea really concrete.” This particular article grew out of his environmental DNA research (see this paper) and his desire to “think through the implications of emerging technologies on environmental and natural-resource management.”

Congratulations to Dr. Kelly on this latest accomplishment and contribution to his fields!