Large carnivore feeding ecology plays a crucial role for management and conservation predators their prey. One of the keys to this kind research is identify species composition in predator diet, example, prey determination from scat content. DNA-based methods applied detect predators’ scats are viable alternatives traditional macroscopic approaches, showing an increased reliability higher detec...

Abstract We present the Spectroscopic Classification of Astronomical Transients (SCAT) survey, which is dedicated to spectrophotometric observations transient objects such as supernovae and tidal disruption events. SCAT uses SuperNova Integral-Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) on University Hawai’i 2.2 m (UH2.2m) telescope. SNIFS was designed specifically for accurate spectrophotometry, including abso...