“Having the opportunity to work with an instrument like Ascension that allows us to sample at depth from a small boat is really a game changer for us."

When Ascension is collecting water, already filtering and getting all the metadata, you can think about other questions like how we can enrich our data. Suddenly you have so much more time on your hands to do something else! Ascension can be integrated into normal monitoring of (marine parks) to give them a vast amount of information that they wouldn't be able to get with other methods.”

“Having the carousel of filters on Ascension allowed us to deploy it once, trigger it at two different depths and collect multiple samples at each depth. That allowed us to collect biological replicates, something that is super challenging when we're collecting eDNA samples but is really informative.”

“I really like the simplicity and compact nature of (Discovery). You can get out into the middle of a wetland, stick your filter over the side, hit the button, and sit there writing in your field notebook. That flexibility is huge. We keep extra batteries charged in the car. We’ve never had one die.”

“The ability to deploy Ascension from a RIB is amazing. It's such a comprehensive instrument for what we need it for, and we can actually deploy it with ease of use from a small vessel.”

“Sometimes we do some good old-fashioned bushwhacking to get to these lakes. (Discovery) made it a lot easier than lugging around the gear that we had. It is very light, which is key, especially in getting into these remote areas.” 

"Having Ascension that could potentially revolutionize the field was just like a beacon. You can just go out with the Ascension device and sample quite easily on the tender itself. It opens a lot more doors for end users to implement eDNA into their (biodiversity) monitoring.”