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Transect Magazine: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

12-30-2025

Senior Research Scientist Doug Rasher, and his Maine-eDNA program PhD students, have been working to illuminate how the critical and complex kelp forest ecosystem is adapting to a changing Gulf of Maine.

Transect Magazine: Charismatic Microfauna

12-26-2025

Zooplankton are more diverse, more captivating, and more critically important to ocean health than most realize. Researchers are working to unlock the big mysteries of these tiny animals, revealing their fate in a changing world.

Mike Lomas welcomes attendees to the Maria All-Hands Workshop hosted at Bigelow Laboratory

MARIA Project Celebrates First Year of Algae-Based Innovations and Partnerships

12-19-2025

The Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator project is creating new partnerships and education opportunities and funding research to accelerate algae-based innovation.

Shayla Ferreiro and Maya Groner tag and inspect eelgrass shoots in Padilla Bay, WA

Ecosystem Interactions Shape Spread of Wasting Disease

12-17-2025

A Bigelow Laboratory researcher is co-leading a multi-institutional effort to unravel the causes and consequences of seagrass wasting in a warming ocean, highlighting the influence of the broader ecosystem in the spread of marine diseases.