Category: Changing Oceans
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Podcast: Ocean Currents, Where are the Right Whales?
In the latest episode of the Ocean Currents podcast, Bigelow Laboratory Senior Research Scientist Nick Record and meteorologist Dave Epstein discuss North Atlantic right whales…
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Field Notes: Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series
By Farley Miller, Research Associate, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences “Five minutes,” Dave calls from the wheelhouse. Those of us in the lab space on…
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Iron Resolve
An international team of scientists, including Bigelow Laboratory Senior Research Scientist Ben Twining, is calling for a new generation of carefully designed ocean iron fertilization…
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Penguin Awareness Day
On January 20, Bigelow Laboratory joined organizations and institutions in celebrating Penguin Awareness Day. Our researchers discovered how a small amount of penguin guano in…
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One Shell of a Study
Led by Postdoctoral Scientist Melissa Rocker, Bigelow Laboratory researchers published a new study yesterday that looks at the spread of epizootic shell disease in American…
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On Cloud Nine
Tiny, floating particles in the atmosphere called aerosols are a key ingredient for forming clouds. They’re also one of the big unknowns in climate models.…
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Following the (Sea) Stars
Harmful algae blooms that produce the potent neurotoxin domoic acid, or DA, can have devastating impacts on marine animals. That’s even more true when DA…
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Carapace Conundrum
Warming waters helped drive a catastrophic collapse of the Southern New England lobster fishery in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Adult lobsters failed to…