Submitted by Julia Pohling, Facility Supervisor of the Food Processing Pilot Plant, Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development (CASD), Marine Institute (Supervisor: Dr. Heather Burke), and PhD candidate (Process Engineering) (Supervisor: Dr. Kelly Hawboldt)

The chitin architecture of a crab exoskeleton, 2024

Purified chitin structure of a snow crab. It’s extremely strong and feels like plastic.

Research project title – Development of green extraction processes for chitin from crustacean shells.