Center for Environmental Forensic Science
Research Software
Note: Website is currently under construction as it transitions from the Center for Conservation Biology to the Center for Environmental Forensic Science. Some content may be unfinished or changed in the upcoming weeks. Thank you for your understanding.
Elephant Ivory: Main Research Software
Tracking Poached Ivory: DNA Assignment Software
The Center for Conservation Biology applied a novel statistical smoothing method to these gene frequencies to create a continuous distribution of elephant gene frequencies across the continent. This allows us to estimate each poached ivory sample’s position across Africa, including areas with no reference samples, and provides a confidence estimate for each assignment.