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Natalie McGee’s could help save an important underwater resource.
The Mt. Lebanon High School junior’s research and experimentation focusing on a seldom-studied marine animal earned her a divisional first-place finish in the recent Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
Perhaps more importantly, “Examining the Effects of Marine Microplastics on Porifera Microbial Filtration” pursues a potential avenue toward reversing the disappearance of earth’s coral reefs.
At issue is whether tiny plastic pollutants are inhibiting sponges, they of the phylum Porifera, from their normal function of consuming microbes and removing potentially harmful bacteria from the water.
“It was a topic that apparently had been overlooked by scientists until very recently, because a lot of the focus right now is on animals that actually consume the microplastics as food and how that could be a problem,” Natalie said. ....

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