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Nichole Price, senior research scientist, addresses the Halo convening and NECL legislators
Convenings Promote Innovation for the Global Blue Economy
10-17-2025
Bigelow Laboratory’s forum is a hotbed of convening activity, hosting scientists and legislators at events this month to share successes, lessons learned, data, and visions to foster research and partnerships that support the blue economy.
Preston Akenga, from Kisii University in Kenya, in front of Bigelow Laboratory's Shore Facility
BioGeoSCAPES Fellow Brings International Insight
10-01-2025
As part of the first cohort of BioGeoSCAPES fellows, Preston Akenga spent the summer with Bigelow Laboratory’s Steve Archer, developing his analytical skills to create new pathways for environmental research in Kenya.
Alaina Weinheimer and Solomon DeMello work together to review recent data
Intern and Postdoc Partner to Discover Dark Ocean Viruses
09-19-2025
REU funding enabled postdoctoral fellow Alaina Weinheimer to mentor a summer intern, testing out novel single-cell genomics methods and applying them to the understudied dark ocean and the vast microbial community that lives there.
The research team extracted a sediment core from below a commercial kelp farm
eDNA Can Help Detect Kelp-Derived Carbon on Ocean Floor
09-17-2025
Researchers have developed environmental DNA tools to measure kelp deposition and examine the biological communities in sediments below Gulf of Maine kelp farms, which could help inform carbon dioxide removal efforts.