A cache of phytoplankton held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is helping to reconstruct historical coastlines. By Jack Tamisiea / Hakai Magazine Published Sep 22, 2022 9:00 PM ...
This story originally appeared in Hakai magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nestled in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University ...
"This meant we could see how much heavy metal the algae had absorbed in total and whether the intake had changed over time." The team then prepared diatom samples to study them using electron ...
Because of their striking beauty, diatoms took the microscopical society by storm. To satiate their interest, many of these diatomists headed east to the New Jersey coastline to collect samples, which ...