{"id":37750,"date":"2020-12-07T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T23:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=37750"},"modified":"2021-05-21T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:53:22","slug":"using-marine-algae-to-investigate-biofouling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2020\/12\/07\/using-marine-algae-to-investigate-biofouling\/","title":{"rendered":"IO-7: Using marine algae to investigate biofouling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mentor: Kayla Kurtz<\/strong>, <em>University of Rhode Island<\/em><br \/>\nCo-Mentor: Vinka Craver, <em>University of Rhode Island<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Project Location<\/h3>\n<p>University of Rhode Island-Bay Campus<\/p>\n<h3>Project Description<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37753\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37753\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Devyn-Barraza-Kayla-Kurtz-19-SURF-RI-CAIM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kurtz Barraza\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Devyn-Barraza-Kayla-Kurtz-19-SURF-RI-CAIM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Devyn-Barraza-Kayla-Kurtz-19-SURF-RI-CAIM-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Devyn-Barraza-Kayla-Kurtz-19-SURF-RI-CAIM-364x243.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Devyn-Barraza-Kayla-Kurtz-19-SURF-RI-CAIM-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Devyn-Barraza-Kayla-Kurtz-19-SURF-RI-CAIM.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayla Kurtz (right) and 2019 SURF Devyn Barraza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a collaborative project with environmental engineers and marine biologists. It investigates biofouling in marine environments and includes both coastal (field) sampling work and laboratory experiments with marine algae. Since biofouling can impact the ability of sensors to collect data within a few days of sensor deployment, it is important to identifying and testing different materials for resistance to biofouling by marine algae and organisms. Currently, reproductive propagules of the marine green macroalga <em>Ulva<\/em> are commonly used as model organisms for biofouling screening tests. Students participating in this project will determine variations in settlement and adhesive properties of <em>Ulva<\/em> spores in relation to species identity. Students will collect reproductive wild adult specimens during the summer at several Narragansett Bay locations representing different environmental characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>For each specimen, species identity will be confirmed in the laboratory using morphological characteristics and genetic analysis, and the compositional characteristics of released reproductive propagules will be assessed. The adhesive properties of the propagules will be tested by allowing them to settle and attach to glass sides, and then blasting the slides with a controlled water jet stream to simulate the dynamic conditions of marine environments. This project aligns with RI C-AIM Thrust 3.<\/p>\n<h3>Additional Information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/0OL0fsbmEr3Sl\/\">Film Study: Faculty and students from Bryant, Salve Regina and URI are finding ways to halt microbial communities interfering with marine sensors<\/a>,&#8221; from RI C-AIM&#8217;s annual magazine The Current.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IO-7: Using marine algae to investigate biofouling<br \/>\nKayla, Kurtz, University of Rhode Island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[955,958,741],"class_list":["post-37750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21-surf","tag-io-21-surf","tag-flex-21-surf","tag-university-of-rhode-island"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40766,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37750\/revisions\/40766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}