Tag: Forecasting
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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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Rising with the Tide
Today marks the two-year anniversary of severe storms that battered the Maine coast on January 10 and 13, 2024. In East Boothbay, these systems caused…
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Take a Wild Guess
If you’re in the market for a new superpower in 2026, might we suggest trying your hand at superforecasting? Superforecasters are people who have an…
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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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Let the Science Sync In
Last month, researchers from Bigelow Laboratory and Maine Department of Marine Resources gathered at our lab for the inaugural Bigelow-DMR Collaborative Symposium — hopefully, the…
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#MicroMonday: Tiny Bites for Marine Giants
Given that they are among the largest animals on the planet, it may seem puzzling that one of the North Atlantic right whale’s key prey…
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Following the Fare
The North Atlantic right whale is among the world’s biggest animals. It’s also one of its most endangered. Models of their distribution are essential for…
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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…