Heather Richard

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...