Tag: Gulf of Maine
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Sedimental Value
A Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences team undertook new sediment coring efforts in the Gulf of Maine, reaching much deeper depths on the continental shelf. This…
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Surf and Turf
As large swaths of Maine’s kelp forests transition into a new state, a study by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences scientists reveals what’s driving the…
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Go Forth and BLOOM
This afternoon, 16 Maine high school juniors graduated Bigelow Laboratory ’s Keller BLOOM (our 37th cohort of the long-running, successful program!). Prior to collecting their…
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It’s (Not) a Trap
If you’re clawing for a first-hand account of what it’s like lobstering on the Gulf of Maine, join us at Footbridge Brewery on Thursday, May…
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You Heard that Right (Whales)
Senior Research Scientist Nick Record was featured on the latest episode of the Make Science Make Sense podcast. Nick and Curt Brown, a lobsterman and…
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Oh, What a Tangled Web
At Bigelow Laboratory, we know that the smallest things can have the biggest impact on the ocean ecosystem. A multi-institutional team, led by the University…
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Los Angeles Times: Industrial chemicals have reached the middle of the oceans, new study shows
Check out this Los Angeles Times story featuring research by recently graduated Bigelow Laboratory and University of Maine PhD student Shane Farrell! Shane got involved…
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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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Take a Peak 🏔️
On Tuesday, team members on Bigelow Laboratory’s latest GNATS (Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series) research cruise spotted something huge in the distance: Mount…
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Tiny Life is a Big-elow Deal
Bigelow Laboratory researchers Nick Record, Rebekah Shunmugapandi, and Karen Stamieszkin were featured in an article today in The Maine Monitor about their zooplankton research. For…
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Boothbay Register: Orca Spotted Off Maine Coast
Check out this orca sighting in the Gulf of Maine! Bigelow Laboratory Senior Research Scientist Nick Record sheds some light on orca observations in the…
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Ocean Science, Ahoy!
This morning, we spotted a cohort of Jan Plan students from Colby College heading out aboard the R/V Bowditch to sample the Damariscotta River. Huge…
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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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Seeing the Forest for the Trees
In parts of the Gulf of Maine, kelp forests are disappearing fast and being replaced with something new. Scientists call this kind of dramatic, lasting…
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#MicroMonday: Charismatic Microfauna
What do jellyfish, lobsters, krill, and even swordfish have in common? At some point in their lives, they’re all zooplankton. These are the drifting animals…
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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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#MicroMonday: Festive, Yet Toxic
Merry #MicroMonday! Check out this light microscopy of Pseudo-nitzschia australis cells collected off the coast of Maine during the 2016 bloom, the first time that…
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Keeping Clear of Bad Blooms
Toxic species of algae like Pseudo-nitzschia australis can have devastating impacts on coastal industries and communities — a lesson Maine communities learned first hand in…
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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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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…