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Bigelow Ocean Education & Innovation Center

On June 26, Bigelow Laboratory staff and supporters celebrated the grand opening of the Harold Alfond Center for Ocean Education and Innovation

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Innovation “Sprint” Helping Promote Biotech Kicks Off

08-13-2025

Bigelow Laboratory and Hatch Blue are partnering on a 'blue biotech ecosystem assessment,' which kicked off last month with a day of brainstorming and networking, to grow a thriving, marine-based biotech industry in Maine.

Vice President for Research Beth Orcutt speaking at a recent ISA meeting

Scientists Continue to Advise Deep-Sea Mining Discussions

08-13-2025

Vice President for Research Beth Orcutt continues to engage in policy conversations around deep-sea mining internationally — and increasingly within the U.S. — to help fill critical knowledge gaps facing this emerging industry.

Post Doctural Researcher, Melissa Rocker, holdinmg a lobster in fronm of a large blue tank

Experiments Help Test Lobsters’ Vulnerability to Disease

08-11-2025

Bigelow Laboratory researchers are working with resource managers and fishermen to unravel the dynamics of a deadly shell disease and help understand the threats facing American lobsters in a rapidly warming Gulf of Maine.

Researchers take samples from a CTD rosette that collects water at each station for several variables at multiple depths.

Study Illuminates How Diatoms Thrive in the Southern Ocean

08-04-2025

An interdisciplinary team of researchers combined methods to help explain enigmatic satellite observations and begin to unravel the complex biological communities and geochemical processes at play in this remote part of the ocean.