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Sara Schaal Wins the Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching
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.
April 22, 2020
A 10,000-mile Journey for Microbes
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.
April 22, 2020
Women in Science: Communicating our Impacts on Marine Communities
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.
April 08, 2020
Women in Science: Sentinels for Biodiversity
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.
March 31, 2020
From “Eww” to “Whoa”: Reflections on our School to Sea Programs
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.
March 11, 2020
Food, Forests and Fisheries: A Journey In Conservation and Food
Student Caitlyn Ark journals about her dialogue of civilizations experience in Romania and Crete.
February 05, 2020
A Close-up Look at the Mysterious Plague Sweeping Through Caribbean Reefs
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.
February 05, 2020
Billions Of Tons Of Plastic Are Choking The Ocean. She’s Here To Clean It Up.
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.
January 27, 2020
All in the mud: nutrients and microbes aid understanding of marsh resilience
Researchers in the Bowen Lab at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center are working to expand our understanding of salt marsh resilience to the threats of sea level rise.
January 24, 2020
As black seabass move north, lobsters face greater predation risk
As ocean temperatures warm, some marine species are moving north which can result in novel species interactions.
January 24, 2020
The Secret to Better Eyesight? Just Add Oxygen (and Millions of Years of Evolution).
A study published by an international collaboration of researchers, including Northeastern professor H. William Detrich, revealed how a steady supply of oxygen helped vertebrates evolve better vision.
December 20, 2019
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences
The Deep Ocean Is Not on Fire. So What’s All That Soot Doing in There?
Aron Stubbins, an associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern, teamed up with a group of researchers who tested the long-established idea that rivers eventually transport black carbon into the ocean.
December 02, 2019
Connecting the Land and Sea
Terrestrial plants account for the vast majority of life on land, and their contribution to life in the sea might be larger than you think.
November 07, 2019