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Are you curious about algae blooms?  Here is a project you can do to test your local waters.

Are you curious about algae blooms? Here is a project you can do to test your local waters.

Algae is all over the news these days, from the Olympic's swimming pools to the blooms happening in Florida and New Zealand. Why?  Nitrogen and Phosphorus.  These chemicals are added to our waters through our wastewater stream and from runnoff...

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Lesson Plans!

Lesson Plans!

Hi Algae Friends, We are finally getting to publishing our LESSON PLANS!!!    This first one is a toxicology plan about how much oil (or any other chemical really) it would take to kill algae.    Do you have any ideas for...

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Morphology of Spirulina

Morphology of Spirulina

What does spirulina look like? Arthrospira platensis, aka spirulina, is a helical colony or tricome.  Below are some of the features we use to describe the tricome. Pitch:  Similar to wavelength.  It is the distance between two peaks in the tricome....

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Extracting lipids and other products from algae.

It is early morning as most of family quietly sleeps...and my son begs for a television show before the sun comes up.   I am up early doing research and doing final edits on the Algae Research Supply Culturing Manual.  While researching...

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Up and running!

We are starting up our blog!   Time to start telling stories about algae.

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