Environmental Organism Transfer Tasha Sturm 1 1 Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, Ca 95003 , USA Abstract There are numerous bacteria, yeast and molds living in the surrounding environment that can be transferred to other organisms via contact. Shoes and hands were either swabbed or pressed onto TSA agar plates and incubated at 37 degree's C for 48 hrs, then room temperature for 72 hrs, then plates kept at refrigerated temperature for up to a week. Different incubation temperatures allowed different species of bacteria, yeast, mold to grow from one sample. Organisms normally found on the body would grow at 37 0 C while room temperature and refrigerated temperatures yielded environmental yeast and molds. As seen in the images below Bacillus spp ., a common spore forming soil bacteria is the majority of growth seen through out the samples and grew well at warm incubation temperatures while growth of the colorf