Category: Ocean’s Potential
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Research Highlight: Stabilizing the Shoreline
Anyone who has spent time on the beach knows that if you pile up sand, it’ll quickly fall apart. That’s why you add water to…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: August 2026
As an ocean science leader, Bigelow Laboratory is helping Maine bring to bear its competitive advantages to position the state at the forefront of this…
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Positioning Maine as a National Blue Biotech Leader
Given Maine’s scalable aquaculture industry and heritage fisheries, long history of marine research excellence, unique algae innovation assets, and proximity to Boston’s life sciences hub,…
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Howdy from Halifax!
Bigelow Laboratory SRS Karen Stamieszkin, visiting student Reyes Martín Rodríguez, and REU Lulu Baker recently spent three days on a research cruise off Halifax, Nova…
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Podcast: Lessons from Lab & Life, Interview with John Burns
In this episode of the Lab & Life podcast from New England Biolabs, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Senior Research Scientist John Burns spoke about…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: June 2026
As an ocean science leader, Bigelow Laboratory is helping Maine bring to bear its competitive advantages to position the state at the forefront of this…
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Spiking their Interest
Bigelow Laboratory REU students Opshory Choudhury and Judah Gradie visited Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute in Massachusetts to pick up a sea urchin cell line for…
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Podcast: Science Friday, Zombie Sea Cucumbers
In this episode of Science Friday, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Senior Research Scientist Rachel Sipler spoke about her role in a recent study on…
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Seaweed Cookie, Anyone?
We aren’t fishing for compliments, but they are delicious. Think: matcha’s coastal cousin 🍪 🌊 This weekend, members of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences team…
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The Underwater Undead: Starring Zombie Cucumbers
A recent study, featuring Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Senior Research Scientist Rachel Sipler and led by researchers at Memorial University of Newfoundland, documented the continued…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: May 2026
As an ocean science leader, Bigelow Laboratory is helping Maine bring to bear its competitive advantages to position the state at the forefront of this…
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Maine Seaweed Week Leadership
Seaweed. Some see weeds. At Bigelow Laboratory, we see abundant opportunities for Maine. As a world-renowned hub for research and technology focused on seaweed and…
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Inside the North Atlantic Blue BioTech Summit
Many thanks to Hatch Blue for sharing a look at last month’s North Atlantic Blue BioTech Summit in Portland! The team at Bigelow Laboratory is…
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Making Big Waves for Maine’s Blue Economy
More than 200 investors, corporate leaders, supply chain representatives, scientists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers from around the world recently gathered at the North Atlantic Blue BioTech…
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Big News for the Blue Economy
Bigelow Laboratory has taken ownership of the National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP), the nation’s first dataset tracking the value and health of ocean and coastal…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: March 2026
As an ocean science leader, Bigelow Laboratory is helping Maine bring to bear its competitive advantages to position the state at the forefront of this…
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Collaborative Excellence
From March 16-20, Bigelow Laboratory Senior Research Scientist José Fernández-Robledo led a short course at MDI Biological Laboratory as part of the Maine IDeA Network…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: February 2026
As an ocean science leader, Bigelow Laboratory is helping Maine bring to bear its competitive advantages to position the state at the forefront of this…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: January 2026
Maine researchers and entrepreneurs are unlocking the potential of algae, seaweed, shellfish, and marine microbes to develop novel products and materials. These blue biotechnology innovations…
