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Bigelow Ocean Education & Innovation Center

On June 8, World Ocean Day, Bigelow Laboratory announced an initiative to create a transformative new center.

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Program Works to Cultivate a Network of Deep-Sea Diplomats

12-19-2024

COBRA, the Crustal Ocean Biosphere Research Accelerator project, aims to build relationships between scientists — and with policy makers — to encourage science-based decision-making as human activity in the deep ocean intensifies.

FIELD NOTES: Panama

12-12-2024

Postdoctoral Scientist Sara Swaminathan is part of a new, multi-institutional team working to understand how the feeding preferences of algae-foraging fish, which help maintain the ecological balance of coral reefs, may shift as those reefs degrade.

From Idea to Innovation

12-10-2024

Scientists at Bigelow Laboratory know there are nearly limitless possibilities hidden in the world of algae, and they have bold ideas to tap into that potential for drug discovery, food security, climate change mitigation, and many more applications.

A microscopy image of plankton alongside marine viruses

Ocean Enigma

12-09-2024

Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the ocean. Yet scientists are only just beginning to unravel the mystery of how marine viruses work, what role they play in the ecosystem, and how their interactions with other microbes shape marine evolution in real time.