Clayton Weingartner
3:51 - 4:13
"We collect the samples, they're transported to a lab. We have two labs stood up in Anchorage for this. One is the Department of Environmental Conservation's Environmental Health Lab, and the other is University of Alaska Anchorage AIMS Core Facility."
“We collect the samples, they're transported to a lab. We have two labs stood up in Anchorage for this. One is the Department of Environmental Conservation's Environmental Health Lab, and the other is University of Alaska Anchorage AIMS Core Facility.”
- Speaker
- Clayton Weingartner
- Timestamp
- 3:51 – 4:13
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai
- Captured at
- June 17, 2026
From the transcript
We collect the samples, they're transported to a lab. We have two labs stood up in Anchorage for this. One is the Department of Environmental Conservation's Environmental Health Lab, and the other is University of Alaska Anchorage AIMS Core Facility. Both labs kind of work on different projects for us. At these labs, they do some rather complex advanced molecular detection, kind of a fancy way to say they isolate the genetic material we're looking for.
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