Brewing up solutions to harmful algal blooms

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Brewing up solutions to harmful algal blooms

Aug 28, 2019

Could by-products from beer brewing be used to manage harmful algal blooms? That's one of the questions being asked in the Place Lab, where Dr. Allen Place and his Ph.D. student Taylor Armstrong are testing the effect of spent grain on algae formation. The Baltimore Sun covered this unique partnership between IMET scientists and Diamondback Brewing Company. 

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Taylor Armstrong at her lab bench