Minnesota Sea Grant is hosting a shipboard science workshop October 18-19, 2022. This workshop is for 4th-12th grade teachers and educators who want to know about the invisible microbes that live in our gut, that drive our food webs, that cycle nutrients like phosphorus or nitrogen in the environment, and that live in zooplankton and help them process food. Spend a day aboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Blue Heron working with University of Minnesota Duluth Associate Professor and microbiologist Cody Sheik and a day in his laboratory analyzing the water samples you collected. Participants will learn how to collect samples of microorganisms from lake water and lake sediment and how to cultivate microbes from water samples. Participants will also learn how to quantify nitrogen fixation, a process that maintains the inventory of biologically available nitrogen in the lake, which fuels plant growth. Contact Marte Kitson for more information at minnesota@cgll.education or 218-726-8305

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