The tanks at the Sai Kung fish market in Hong Kong were brimming with unusual creatures. Buyers chose from live mantis shrimp, sea snails, lobsters, clams, giant groupers, and arrays of other fish and had them cooked on the spot. There was every kind of seafood under the sun. And from all appearances, many of […]

As ocean temperatures warm, some marine species are moving north which can result in novel species interactions.

A new study co-authored by MSC researchers investigates dynamics of larval recruitment in Atlantic Cod and impacts on population recovery in the Gulf of Maine.

The Marine Science Center is proud to announce the successful PhD dissertation defense of seven graduate students in the past year: Althea Moore, Nicholas Colvard, Jennifer Elliot, Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Lara Lewis-McGrath, Christine Ramsay-Newton, and Lin Zhu. Upon successful defense of their dissertations, these students earned doctorate degrees as successful graduates of Northeastern’s Ecology, Evolution, and […]

Jonathan Grabowski talks about his ongoing research in the Gulf of Maine in a recent Nature Conservancy video.

A recent study led by MSC graduate students probed the effects of key environmental variables on the life history pattern of an ephemeral golden alga that grows on local eelgrass.

A new study published by MSC researchers provides evidence indicating that parents exposed to predation risk may give birth to emboldened offspring.

This summer, an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research team led by Marine and Environmental Sciences pro­fessor Geoff Trussell will study com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tion and con­nec­tivity of rocky inter­tidal habi­tats throughout the Gulf of Maine.

Marissa McMahan, a lobsterwoman turned scientist, is devoting her dissertation research to documenting the ecological impacts of Black Sea Bass range expansion into the Gulf of Maine. She's turning to crowdfunding to help fund her research.

Northeastern graduate student Marissa McMahan is marshaling her scientific training and her family's connection to the Maine lobster industry to research the black sea bass' northern range expansion due to climate change.

The Gulf of Maine's rocky intertidal zone has many region-wide defining characteristics, as well as some notable subregional differences.

If you think you are about to become the victim of an attack, police say one way to potentially protect yourself is to hide. In the lobster world, the same goes. Lobsters hide from their predators.

If you think you are about to become the victim of an attack, police say one way to potentially protect yourself is to hide. In the lobster world, the same goes. Lobsters hide from their predators.