Tag: Students
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Come Explore Bigelow Laboratory!
We are thrilled to invite you to Bigelow Laboratory’s annual open house on Friday, July 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at our state-of-the-art…
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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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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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Dock to Doc
World Ocean Day proved a fitting capstone to UMaine PhD student Sydney Greenlee’s academic studies at Bigelow Laboratory. On Monday, Sydney successfully defended her dissertation…
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Happy World Ocean Day!
Happy World Ocean Day! 🌊 When people think about the ocean, words that often come to mind include large, deep, powerful, salty, and inspirational. Here…
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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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Science Careers STEM from This
Research Technician Lydia Pinard and Education Coordinator Evan Henerberry represented Bigelow Laboratory at the 12th annual Portland Public Schools Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)…
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Ready, Set, BLOOM
Our Keller BLOOM application deadline is fast approaching this Friday. If you haven’t yet submitted your materials, don’t wait: you won’t want to miss this…
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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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Colby College: Jan Plan Course Explores Algae’s Possibilities
Colby College students are collaborating with Bigelow Laboratory and MDI Biological Laboratory through the Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator (MARIA), exploring how algae can…
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#MicroMonday: Tales from the Dock-side
This #MicroMonday, grab a flashlight and check out several tiny aquatic life forms collected during a nighttime sampling off Bigelow Laboratory’s dock. Spencer Dreibelbis, a…
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Colby College: On the Water with Bigelow Laboratory
Through a partnership with Bigelow Laboratory, Colby College students are uncovering plankton’s essential role in forming the foundation of the ocean’s marine ecosystem.
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Major Minor Opportunity
The long-standing relationship between Bigelow Laboratory and Colby College recently took a step forward with the creation of a marine science minor. The program leverages…
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Ready, Set, BLOOM
Do you know a Maine high school junior with an interest in the ocean? Great news: applications for Bigelow Laboratory‘s free high school program are…
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UMaine News: Five Students Share Why They Chose Maine
Kyle Oliveira, a UMaine PhD student who has worked at Bigelow Laboratory, was highlighted in the University of Maine News about his research learning more…
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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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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: 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…