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Harvest Festival: Science, Art, and Cyanobacteria!
At the Harvest Festival, the South Dakota Mines E-RISE team engaged kids and families through creative, hands-on activities that combined art and microbiology to highlight the environmental and sustainability roles of cyanobacteria.
Wazi Paha Festival at Oglala Lakota College
At the Wazi Paha Festival at Oglala Lakota College, the South Dakota Mines E-RISE BNERC team led an interactive outreach activity using Yellowstone hot spring pigments to teach students and families about thermophilic microbes, environmental adaptation, and the link between art and microbiology.
Sampling Trip to Yellowstone National Park
The South Dakota Mines E-RISE BNERC team conducted a high-priority field expedition to Yellowstone National Park to collect thermophilic microbial samples from geothermal springs, aiming to uncover novel metabolic traits that could advance biotechnology and sustainable materials science.
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