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Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center, Three Seas
Experience Magazine: He spent months underwater. Now he wants to save the ocean.
Mark Patterson, marine scientist, aquanaut, and inventor of underwater robots, walked into San Diego Comic-Con dressed as a giant coral polyp. He was decked out entirely in orange, with ten fake tentacles dangling from his neck. Green and purple splotches on his shirt front represented microplastics pollution, lodged in his polyp-gut. This was 2015, and […]
November 17, 2021
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences
College of Science Connects: The Plastics Problem
Hear from Professor Aron Stubbins and students to discuss the interactions between humans and the environment. Explore the global cycle of plastics, the processes that breakdown plastics in the environment, and the ecological and human health implications of plastics and their by-products. Discover new innovations that may be instrumental in finding solutions to […]
November 12, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences
Q & A with Troy Langknecht, MS in Environmental Science and Policy
Q & A with Troy Langknecht, Environmental Science and Policy student.
November 08, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Three Seas
These co-ops are taking part in creating the next model organism, one cephalopod at a time.
It’s not every day you get the chance to work with cephalopods. That, however, is not the case for Northeastern students Sarah Beecy and Sonia van Stekelenborg. Beecy, a third-year marine biology student, and van Stekelenborg, a third-year environmental science student, are currently on their first co-op as marine cephalopod aquarists at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The MBL is a […]
October 22, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences
On co-op at The Food Project, she hopes to make a difference in the environmental justice field.
Sophia Samaha shares her experience as a College of Science student on co-op.
October 12, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences
Is wildfire soot leaving a mark on the world’s oceans?
When clouds of smoke and ash billow out over the ocean, stretching away from the wildfires that are their source, they might not just affect the air quality. Rather, the wildfire soot could leave a chemical mark on the waters below. That’s the idea behind new research by Aron Stubbins, associate professor of marine and […]
September 20, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences
To safeguard key coastal ecosystems, this scientist starts by talking to the local anglers
Marine and Environmental Sciences Professor, Steven Scyphers, works with anglers to take comprehensive look yet at greater amberjack populations.
September 14, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences
How data from hurricane Ida can help bolster levees, power infrastructure.
Qin Jim Chen, professor of civil and environmental engineering, collects data from Hurricane Ida to save lives and help prevent flooding.
September 07, 2021
Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences
He cultivates the campus’s ‘urban forest’ with an eye on the future.
It is a sticky, tropical day in August, making the Boston campus feel like an open-air blast furnace. Good thing Northeastern has nearly 1,500 trees to absorb some of the heat, or it could feel a lot worse, says Stephen Schneider, the university’s new chief arborist. “One of the more beneficial aspects of this urban […]
August 27, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences
If we don’t halt climate change, the world’s oceans may never be the same.
The vast majority of the world’s oceans may never be the same if humanity doesn’t curb our carbon emissions. As much as 95% of the climates in the surface ocean that exist today could completely disappear within 80 years, according to new research led by Katie Lotterhos, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at […]
August 27, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences
How the natural pigments in marine life inspired a beauty products startup
Camille Martin, PhD and assistant professor of Chemistry, Leila Deravi, developed Seaspire Skincare, a beauty product line drawn from marine ecosystems.
August 20, 2021
Biotechnology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
When a heatwave comes, this scientist takes a shellfish’s perspective
Brian Helmuth, marine science and public policy professor at Northeastern, and his team built "robomussels" and other temperature loggers in an effort to find refugia for the mussels dying as a result of record-setting heatwaves.
July 26, 2021
Biotechnology, Marine and Environmental Sciences
This robot is going to map uncharted kelp forests in the Arctic–and the impact of climate change
Professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern, Mark Patterson, receives the Fulbright U.S. scholar award to further his research mapping uncharted kelp forests in the Canadian Arctic.
July 22, 2021
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
What would make oysters better? This scientist is figuring it out.
Katie Lotterhos, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences, recently received two prestigious awards: a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, and a Fulbright scholarship.
July 14, 2021
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