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Bigelow Laboratory 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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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.

Right whales passing each other in the Gulf of Maine

New Approach Improves Right Whale Distribution Models

09-16-2025

Researchers have published a new approach for incorporating direct information on zooplankton prey to improve model predictions estimating North Atlantic right whale density, which could in turn inform management efforts.