Tag: crowdfunding

Study to explore microbes attached to floating plastic

By Holly Ganz   Posted in Built Environment Topics Research
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You’ve probably heard that the ocean is full of plastic. Here is a guest post about a current crowdfunding campaign to explore the microbes that colonize plastic. Professor Ana Maria Barral from National University (http://www.nu.edu/), a private non-profit in California has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support a recently started project to explore the microbes …

Project to study sea turtle microbiomes in captivity and in the wild

By Holly Ganz   Posted in Animals and the Built Environment
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Professor Aubrey Tauer of City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College is running an crowdfunding campaign to support research conducted by her non-profit organization to better understand how sea turtle microbiomes vary in captivity and in wild populations. I asked her to write up something for microBEnet about the project. The campaign ends next week, so check it out …