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Caring for Our Community
This holiday season, the Bigelow Laboratory team pitched in to help community members facing food insecurity. Bigelowians brought donated pantry staples and essential items to the lab. Yesterday, Chief of Staff Valerie…
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Giving Tuesday
Bigelow Laboratory’s scientists are committed to gaining a better understanding of how the ocean works and unlocking its potential. From learning how tiny life forms, including larval lobsters and coccolithophores, make big…
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Blue Biotech Bulletin: November 2025
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 not only strengthen the state’s economy but…
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Science Aglow
Are you planning to check out Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’s holiday light show, Gardens Aglow? Make your visit to the Boothbay peninsula even merrier with a behind-the-scenes tour of Bigelow Laboratory’s campus…
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Keeping Us Posted
On Tuesday afternoon, Bigelow Laboratory’s Sea Change Semester students presented posters about their research in the Burgess Forum. Colleagues from across the laboratory engaged with the 11 undergraduates as they shared their…
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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. These microscopic particles form thanks to an…
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#MicroMonday: Happy Planksgiving
Thanksgiving is about coming together with those who are most important to us. For marine scientists, few organisms matter more than plankton. This #MicroMonday, Bigelow Laboratory is celebrating these tiny powerhouses of…
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Chromatic Curiosity
Bigelow Laboratory continued celebrating Bioscience Association of Maine (BioME)’s #MaineBioscienceDay with a visit to Durham Community School, where Research Technician Lydia Pinard painted a vivid picture of algae and its role in…
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Slick, Sloshing Science
Bigelow Laboratory is delighted to participate in Maine Bioscience Day, which is taking place in middle schools across the Pine Tree State this week! This event, organized by the Bioscience Association of…
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The Maine Monitor: Maine entrepreneurs see big potential in seaweed
Companies are taking advantage of Maine’s strong seaweed farming heritage and slough of algae experts to develop seaweed-based plastic alternatives for everyday products from fishing gear to detergent pods. Dirigo Sea Farms…
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A Really Big Glow
This evening, Bigelow Laboratory staff had a fantastic time at the Gardens Aglow Community Night at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Team members including Education Coordinator Evan Henerberry and Research Technician Lydia Pinard…
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Muddying the Waters
This morning, Bigelow Laboratory’s Sea Change Semester students learned a core science lesson: biogeochemistry fieldwork is rarely tidy. At the low-tide mudflats surrounding Edgecomb Eddy, they joined Senior Research Scientist Melody Lindsay…
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Plankton Peeps
The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) is one of the oldest and most geographically extensive marine monitoring programs in the world. It provides 90 years of data on the marine plankton community and…
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Science, No Fiction
Happy STEM Day! Today, Bigelow Laboratory is proud to celebrate science, technology, engineering, and math. Take a second to think about the first time you became mesmerized by science. Now, multiply that…
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Explore Our Economic Impact
At Bigelow Laboratory, we go to great lengths to gather solid, actionable data. While we’ve long known that our institution’s efforts to build, buy, contract, and hire within the great state of…
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Sequentially Speaking
Bigelow Laboratory’s Single Cell Genomics Center has long been at the forefront of advancing single-cell sequencing technology to better understand the vast and diverse world of ocean microbes. Those efforts just took…
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Oh, Say Can You CO2?
Next Thursday, exhale deeply, then head over to Footbridge Brewery for Ocean on Tap! Peter Brannen, an award-winning science journalist, will speak about the remarkable role of carbon dioxide in shaping the…
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#MicroMonday: Teeny, Tiny Bubbles
Now that daylight saving time has ended and the days are growing shorter, you might be searching for some bright, hopeful cheer. Bigelow Laboratory has you covered this #MicroMonday! Check out these…
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Microscopic Monsters
Not all algae in Bigelow Laboratory’s National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA) collection are peaceful plankton. Some have a monster appetite! Oxyrrhis marina is a heterotrophic marine algae that doesn’t…
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Good Gourds
It’s true that Bigelow Laboratory’s Sea Change Semester gives students exclusive access to our state-of-the-art facilities, as well as the tools and mentorship needed to lead an independent investigation into questions they…
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