{"id":8525,"date":"2026-04-14T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:26:01","slug":"owb-research-on-invasive-mussels-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8525","title":{"rendered":"OWB Research on Invasive Mussels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Okanogan Basin Water Board (OBWB) is actively researching and addressing the threat of invasive mussels in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The OBWB is funding a UBC Okanagan-led research project to develop a rapid, in-field DNA detection tool for invasive zebra, quagga, and golden mussels. This tool, based on the SHERLOCK platform, can detect the genetic material (eDNA) shed by these mussels on watercraft within minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SWOA is donating $500 in support of the project. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.castanet.net\/news\/Kelowna\/576683\/Okanagan-Basin-Water-Board-commits-200K-to-UBC-Okanagan-research-targeting-invasive-mussels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here<\/a> to read the Castanet article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Okanogan Basin Water Board (OBWB) is actively researching and addressing the threat of invasive mussels in the region. The OBWB is funding a UBC Okanagan-led research project to develop a rapid, in-field DNA detection tool for invasive zebra, quagga, and golden mussels. This tool, based on the SHERLOCK platform, can detect the genetic materialContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,65,16,55,21,79,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-2026","category-contributor","category-ecology","category-export","category-invasive-species","category-sid_clarke","category-water-quality","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8537,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}