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Biomineralogy and Environment
WORKING GROUP ON BIOMINERALOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Biominerals: a continuously growing family
Biominerals are the product of organsm's activity leading to mineral formation within the cellular space or in the space surrounding the organism. In the last decades biominerals have received growing interest form a large interdisciplinary scientific community. Actually, biominerals are known from the geological record to play a pivotal role in biogeochemical cycles of elements. Thus, understanding environmental changes induced by anthropic activities, as well as environment resiliency. Moreover, they offer diverse examples to devise useful biobased materials and allow the development of technologies for environmental sustainability.
Working Group Biominerals and Environment was created around the concept that biominerals, in all their diversity of forms, are central to environmental function and human activities in the environmnent. However, the community of specialist researchers in this topic area currently lack a forum for infomation exchange to discuss and promote this science. It is the charter of the WG-BME to bridge this gap by rellying a set of enthusiastic leaders from the community that can help promote relavant research, both basic and applied, and foster dissemination more broadly. The members of the WG act on a voluntary basis and participate with a collaborative approach to pursue siad aim.
Biominerals are the product of organsm's activity leading to mineral formation within the cellular space or in the space surrounding the organism. In the last decades biominerals have received growing interest form a large interdisciplinary scientific community. Actually, biominerals are known from the geological record to play a pivotal role in biogeochemical cycles of elements. Thus, understanding environmental changes induced by anthropic activities, as well as environment resiliency. Moreover, they offer diverse examples to devise useful biobased materials and allow the development of technologies for environmental sustainability.
Working Group Biominerals and Environment was created around the concept that biominerals, in all their diversity of forms, are central to environmental function and human activities in the environmnent. However, the community of specialist researchers in this topic area currently lack a forum for infomation exchange to discuss and promote this science. It is the charter of the WG-BME to bridge this gap by rellying a set of enthusiastic leaders from the community that can help promote relavant research, both basic and applied, and foster dissemination more broadly. The members of the WG act on a voluntary basis and participate with a collaborative approach to pursue siad aim.
