Heather Richard

Heather Richard

Tiburon, CA

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Published on May 29, 2019

Published in Science of the Total Environment

Dear Funders, I am so thrilled to let you know that three years (almost to the day) after I left California for Maine, I have a publication to share with you! It took some grit, lots of perseveranc...

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Published on Apr 25, 2016

Featured in Chemistry World because of YOU!

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/04/crowd-fu... This link is about you guys! The Royal Society of Chemistry interviewed me about my crowdfunding experience back in December. Just yesterday...

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Published on Feb 14, 2016

One Year Later...

Twelve months ago, I launched this crowdfunding campaign, and the world seemed to spin faster, in a good way. Is it February again?! How is it possible?I'm getting ready to share my results at the...

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Published on Jul 01, 2015

The Drama of Data

It was terrifying and exciting to get the metal results back from my first experiment, especially since I was SO worried about contamination issues. The great news is that I did not experience ver...

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Published on Jun 05, 2015

Samples sent off to be analyzed for metals

I finished the metal analysis for one of my experiments! Now I just have to wait for my results to find out if things turned out as I expected. In the meantime, my biofilm analysi...

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Published on May 15, 2015

The Plastisphere

Across 2.5 mm of a polylactic acid bead (industrially compostable material) we see a community of microorganisms. These guys, including the even more microscopic bacteria and unice...

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Published on May 08, 2015

Here we go! On the road to getting data...

150 samples of beads await metal analysis in the lab freezer. From the conception of this project, now is the time I longed for and dreaded at the same time. Analysis! I've ordered all the supplies...

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Published on Apr 10, 2015

Newspaper worthy!

Front Page Article in the Marin Independent Journal!It's been a month since the campaign finished; four weeks packed full of excitement and tension, checking the seawall almost daily to make sure m...

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I'm so excited for you! Congrats on this well earned goal :-) Can't wait to find out the results of your research!
Reply to:Josslyn MackeJosslyn Macke
Thanks so much! You were absolutely right about the glass being negatively charged, well, I think it's the most likely explanation anyway. Thanks for your kind words :-)
Reply to:Josslyn MackeJosslyn Macke
Thanks so much! We have a device here that neutralizes charges of particles, it's most commonly used to discharge powders so that you can weigh out an exact amount and have none of it stick to the weigh boat. I tried using that, but I saw no difference, and tried soaking the beads in salt water...more