James Garner, a doctoral student in the College of Natural Sciences’ Department of Environmental Conservation and a fellow at the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, is part of a team led by the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) that recently confirmed the presence of a prehistoric fish species on the endangered list in the Connecticut River: the shortnose sturgeon. The team’s environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis found that the fish inhabits a stretch of the Connecticut River between Turners Falls and Bellows Falls, Vt./Walpole, N.H.