Understanding How Microplastic Contamination Impacts Marine Bivalves With Hannah Collins
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we connect with Hannah Collins to discuss the ongoing issue of microplastic contamination. Hannah is a Ph.D. student in Oceanography at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point where she currently focuses her research on microplastics and their impact on marine bivalves (mollusks), and biological solutions to microplastic-related problems.
Microplastics seem to find their way into everything – including marine environments. So what is this pollution doing to sea creatures such as clams, mussels, and oysters? Hannah is committed to finding out…
Join the conversation and you will learn about:
- The microbial communities that form on microplastics, and how they affect bivalves.
- How bivalves' digestive systems work, and how they deal with contaminants like microplastics.
- A potential concern that scientists have regarding nanoplastics and marine life.
- Interesting facts surrounding the microbiome of bivalves.
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| 0:36.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
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| 0:43.0 | I am Hannah Collins. |
| 0:44.0 | She's a PhD student in oceanography at University of Connecticut. |
| 0:48.0 | That's in the Department of Marine Sciences. |
| 0:50.0 | And we're going to talk about microplastics and how it affects clams and oysters and |
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