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Andrea Price wins 2021 SCASM Student Poster prize!

The Southern California chapter of the American Society of Microbiology (SCASM) holds every year in their Fall conference a Student Collegiate Poster competition. We are ecstatic that our own undergraduate researcher Andrea Price (IG @andreaevolves, Twitter @andreaevolves) won this prestigious … Continue reading

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2020: New Year New Phase New Goals

As we enter the second year of our NSF grant, new opportunities and challenges are coming our way. With the logistics of regular SIO field trips and student assessments established, the focus is now on both deepening the science and … Continue reading

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More conferences and workshops

It’s hard to believe January is well over half gone! Ana and I have been quite busy going to workshops and conferences to share our news and experiences. I attended a grantsmanship workshop January 9-10 hosted by the NSF STEM … Continue reading

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Education Research Results and Presentations

Ana and I are “dividing and conquering” in terms of sharing results. I am at the American Society for Microbiology’s annual meeting presenting our preliminary results on student outcomes while Ana is at a Gordon Research Conference doing the same. … Continue reading

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And we are rolling!

As Rachel announced in a previous note, we are collaborating with Jeff Bowman from SIO in the deployment, collection, and analysis of samples, as well as in the educational experience. The gist of the NSF grant is to develop a … Continue reading

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We were awarded an NSF grant!

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

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Collaborations and expansion

Hi all! I’d like to share some exciting developments of the project! First off, we found a new collaborator, Dr. Jeff Bowman at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, to assist us in bioinformatics analyses! You can find his website here: … Continue reading

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Poster presentation accepted for ASM2017!

 ASM Microbe conference!  Needless to say, we are very excited. Just received some preliminary FT-IR data (this is a chemical analysis technique that can expose changes in the structure of materials) for one of the plastics, LDPE (that would be the … Continue reading

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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

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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

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