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Three Seas Students Take a Closer Look at Marine Predators and Their Prey

A Three Seas Program alumni takes a closer look at fear and its effect on ocean prey.

Women in Science: Water Stewards

Part 3: The Marine Science Center is highlighting faculty who are advancing scientific knowledge and removing barriers for the next generation of women in STEM.

05/03/19 – BOSTON, MA. – Northeastern University celebrated its 117th Commencement on May 3, 2019. President Joseph E. Aoun led the undergraduate ceremony, which was held at TD Garden in Boston. Tara Westover, the New York Times best-selling author of Educated, delivered the Commencement address. Northeastern conferred honorary degrees upon a distinguished group of influential figures: Amin J. Khoury, Eduardo J. Padrón, Beth Stevens, and Major General Cedric T. Wins. Photo by Cody O’Loughlin for Northeastern University

Sara Schaal Wins the Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center

Providing an innovative educational experience for our community of learners is a central focus of the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, so we are proud to congratulate this year’s College of Science Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching, Sara Schaal.

Andrea Unzueta-Martinez studied Sydney rock oyster larvae at the Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, located 100 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia. Photo by Rachel Kara for Northeastern University

A 10,000-mile Journey for Microbes

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center, Marine Science Center

MELBOURNE, Australia—Andrea Unzueta-Martinez, a doctoral candidate at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center, moved to the United States to be a dancer but chose science instead. She spent three months at the Port Stephens Fisheries Institute in Australia raising oyster larvae.

Women in Science: Communicating our Impacts on Marine Communities

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center, Marine Science Center

Part 2: The Marine Science Center is highlighting faculty who are advancing scientific knowledge and removing barriers for the next generation of women in STEM.

Women in Science: Sentinels for Biodiversity

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center

Part 1: The Marine Science Center is highlighting faculty who are advancing scientific knowledge and removing barriers for the next generation of women in STEM.

From “Eww” to “Whoa”: Reflections on our School to Sea Programs

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center

As part of the School to Sea program, students from Lynn Public Schools had a chance to visit the Marine Science Center for some interactive learning, from touch tanks to Moon Snails.

Here Vlad, our favorite herpetologist, is explaining about the unique history of the accidental wetland, Văcărești Nature Park, which has since become protected land in the middle of Bucharest. Photo from Caitlyn Ark

Food, Forests and Fisheries: A Journey In Conservation and Food

Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center, Marine Science Center

Student Caitlyn Ark journals about her dialogue of civilizations experience in Romania and Crete.

Divers from the Three Seas program explore a rocky reef in Coiba National Park, Panama. Photo by Tim Briggs for Northeastern University

A Close-up Look at the Mysterious Plague Sweeping Through Caribbean Reefs

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center, Marine Science Center, Three Seas

Northeastern students are surveying a coral reef off the coast of Panama for signs of stony coral tissue loss disease, which threatens twenty species that comprise the heart of the Caribbean’s coral reefs.

Amanda Dwyer, a graduate of Northeastern’s doctoral program in marine and environmental sciences, is joining the Marine Debris Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Billions Of Tons Of Plastic Are Choking The Ocean. She’s Here To Clean It Up.

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center

Northeastern graduate Amanda Dwyer did her doctoral research on how corals survive changing ocean conditions. Her next task is to help reduce the impact of billions of tons of plastic in the world’s oceans.

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