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H. William Detrich, a Northeastern professor of marine and environmental sciences, has demonstrated that sperm and eggs from two different species of icefish can combine to create viable offspring. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
Here’s How a Failed Experiment Led to a New Discovery
H. William Detrich, Northeastern professor of marine and environmental sciences, recently demonstrated that sperm and eggs from icefish in two different genera can combine to create viable offspring.
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Photo: A total of 11 Northeastern students have received Truman and Fulbright Scholarships in 2019. They’re serving underrepresented populations, searching for answers to some of the most vexing diseases, and fighting for gender equality. Composite image by News@Northeastern.
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences
Northeastern Students Awarded Two Truman, Nine Fulbright Scholarships
A total of 11 Northeastern students have received Truman and Fulbright Scholarships in 2019. They’re serving underrepresented populations, searching for answers to some of the most vexing diseases, and fighting for gender equality.
Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts. Photo by Benjamin Bertsch/Northeastern University
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
This Website is a Science Teacher’s Dream Come True
Northeastern’s Marine Science Center has created a new series of online educational resources for science teachers to use to inside and outside their classrooms.
By taking the surface temperature and measuring against the health of marine life and ecosystems, Associate Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences Randall Hughes has found a novel approach to tracking ecosystems and marine life health. Photo by Benjamin Bertsch/Northeastern University
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
A New Method to Forecast Marine Life Vulnerability to Climate Change
Associate Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences Randall Hughes and her lab have a novel approach for determining how marine life populations will react to climate change.
Researchers in the Philippines pulled 88 pounds of plastic out of the stomach of a dead Cuvier’s beaked whale. Photo courtesy of D’ Bone Collector Museum
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
This Sensor Won’t Save the Whale with 88 Pounds of Plastic in its Stomach. But it Might Help the Rest of Us.
Ethan Edson, a research technician at the Field Robotics Laboratory at Northeastern's Marine Science Center, has been working on an autonomous sensor to study microplastics, pieces of plastic in the ocean smaller than 5 millimeters.
Benjamin Moran stands on the rocky shore at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
He Found an Electric Blue, Iridescent Fish-and Became a Knight
Ben Moran travelled to Belize for a marine research project, but the project quickly evolved into a marine conservation effort.
Students test their homemade plankton to see which can stay in the water column the longest. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
How to Dissect a Squid, Squish Seaweed, and Find Your Friends like Whales Do
The High School Marine Science Symposium, co-hosted by Northeastern’s Marine Science Center and the National Marine Educators Association, featured workshops and activities led by representatives of 25 ocean-oriented groups around New England.
Leila Deravi works in her lab in Hurting Hall on Feb. 9, 2018. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences
The Secret of a Squid’s Ability to Change Colors may lie in an Unexpected Sparkle on its Skin
Leila Deravi has been working to investigate squid camouflage on a molecular level with a large, interdisciplinary team of researchers. Their work on the longfin squid, reveals an entirely new aspect of the squid’s color-changing abilities, bringing researchers one step closer to being able to replicate it.
Sequencing the genome of the blackfin icefish might help us better understand anemia, osteoporosis, and other aliments. Photo: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
Icefish Have Antifreeze in Their Blood, Anemia, and Osteoporosis. And They Feel Just Fine.
Northeastern professor H. William Detrich, a leader of an international collaboration that has recently sequenced the genome of the blackfin icefish.
Samuel V. Scarpino, Ph.D., Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Biochemistry, Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Physics
Whooping Cough is Back. Here’s the Global Collaboration to Fight It.
Nearly 50 scientists collaborated with Physics Professor Sam Scarpino to develop a compendium on pertussis and dispute the reasoning for its resurgence worldwide.