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Moving forward!
View of Dana Point Harbor, just North of our sampling site. The team has been quiet since the ISME conference, but that does not mean we have been idle…on the contrary! We have been teaching and dealing with a number … Continue reading
ISME impressions and poster link
ISME16 started yesterday afternoon with the keynote address and today it was in full swing. It is my first time and so far I have been impressed with the scheduling (there seems to be plenty of time to attend the presentations, and … Continue reading
We made it!
Sunrise over the Atlantic. We hit our funding goal yesterday, thanks to all of you who donated to this project…thank you! We are so touched by the number of people who felt moved by the project and supported us. So … Continue reading
Microbes on PET bottles
Reproduced from the article: Fig 5. PET and glass biomarkers identified by linear discriminant analysis This article just appeared in PLOS One: Microbes on a Bottle: Substrate, Season and Geography Influence Community Composition of Microbes Colonizing Marine Plastic Debris A quick read showed … Continue reading
High price for gnarly waves in polluted waters
I just read this article about the risks of surfing after storms, and the presence of Vibrios in coastal waters, particularly in San Diego. Click to read article Specifically referring to wastewater treatment and runoff management, one of the reasons … Continue reading
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Final week!
As we approach the beginning of August we are also approaching the last week of our fundraising efforts on experiment.com. Thanks to our latest backers we are now at 30% of our goal, and we hope that with some nudging … Continue reading
Plastic Cleanup & Plastic Bag Bans
This morning this video popped up in my FB feed, posted by the Story of stuff project: Yeah…pretty depressing. On the other hand, can you imagine the microbes teeming on those piles of plastic? Or how the population in the … Continue reading
Previous Research
For a vivid and engaging overview of the background to this project I recommend watching the documentary Into the Gyre, which can be rented or purchased through Vimeo On Demand. You can see Emelia in the video explaining the study … Continue reading
Validation of the system
The validation run took place March-April 2015, in the Agua Hedionda Lagoon, Carlsbad, CA. Reason to choose this location was the ease to deploy and collect samples attached to a dock. Our goals were to test the sterilization method of … Continue reading
