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Protection and restoration of marine environments are essential for food security and climate change mitigation. Yet historical and archaeological research have shown that conservation and management often rely on arbitrary ecological baselines in ecosystems already shaped by long-term human impacts. Archaeogenomics, the combination of ancient DNA (aDNA) and whole-genome sequencing, provides invaluable insights into these impacts. Recent improvements in laboratory and computational techniques enable the assessment of past fish population dynamics, migration patterns, historical trade routes, long-term anthropogenic pressures, and responses to environmental change. This talk will highlight the pathways through which archaeogenomics can inform restoration, conservation, sustainable fisheries management, and climate adaptation strategies by reviewing recent advances in the field and future applications.Lane Atmore (she/her) is a marine historical ecologist specializing in ancient DNA and population genomics. Her work addresses long-term changes in marine ecosystems over time and the use of ancient DNA to explore anthropogenic and climatic influences on key fish species. Dr. Atmore is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Aquatic Resources at the Danish Technical University (DTU Aqua), and is currently hosted in the Ancient DNA and Proteins (ADaPT) Facility at UBC. Prior to this she was a Banting postdoctoral fellow and Killam laureate at UBC. She completed her PhD in biology at the University of Oslo, her MPhil in applied biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and her BA in anthropology at Grinnell College. She is a Thomas J. Watson fellow (’16) and National Geographic Explorer.
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