We found out today that we received a $249,978 NSF grant for the submission: Using Ocean Plastic Research to Increase Student Engagement and Persistence in Biology. Needless to say, we are absolutely ecstatic. Here is the announcement: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832545  and here… Continue reading

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

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