Dr. Thuong Cao is a Postdoctoral Associate at Virginia Tech. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Arizona State University, where she studied the microbial communities living in fog and how they influence atmospheric water chemistry. Her research explores the connections between microbes, the atmosphere, and environmental processes.
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What lives in the fog? Pollution-eating bacteria
While fog itself is not alive, researchers found that it can contain an ecosystem, including bacteria that eat pollutants.