Creating Space Project

Climate change is impacting agriculture.   “We know it’s going to bring different weather conditions, and hotter conditions, less water, more freak events that will ruin crops eventually. It is scary but it’s interesting to see the way it will react with our crops in the future.”   Grace studied agriculture and now works as a microbiologist. She tests pharmaceuticals for the presence of bacteria.   “Which I’m hoping will give me experience for agriculture, because agriculture really relies on the use of microorganisms.”   At the moment, agriculture uses nitrogen fertiliser to increase crop yields. The problem is that this is bad for the environment and can be costly.   Grace is interested in how bacteria can be used to meet that nitrogen requirement instead.   “Because there are lots of bacteria that instead of using oxygen to respire, like we do, use nitrogen. And the product of that kind of breathing is that they basically produce fertiliser.”   She is fascinated by bacteria. They have interesting structure