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Friday July 21, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS) welcomed hundreds of visitors to an open house on their East Boothbay campus. Throughout the four-hour event, staff scientists gave talks on BLOS’s popular research topics and brief tours...

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Bigelow Laboratories officials explained their planned expansion project slated for this fall to the Boothbay planning board July 19. This is the fourth of five planned expansion projects for the East Boothbay ocean science lab. Chief Financial...

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In a new scientific paper, researchers at MIT, the University of Maine, and elsewhere pieced together satellite data from the past two decades to detect the shift, a worrying development they said could be a harbinger of major changes in the marine food chain.

In the waters of Puget Sound outside Seattle, 73 beloved and endangered orcas, known as the Southern Residents, are on the hunt, clicking. Using sound like a searchlight, they patrol the chilly depths. When they locate a target, they dive, sinking sharp white teeth into their preferred food: the fatty, coral-colored flesh of king salmon. But in recent weeks, this ancient rhythm of the Pacific Northwest was being negotiated not just at sea but also in a federal courtroom in downtown Seattle, wher

Removal of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, in addition to major reductions in ongoing emissions, is required to stave off the most severe consequences of climate change.

University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Brian Ulaski analyzed the seaweed that had washed up on Homer beaches — also called wrack.

Ocean plankton produce half of the oxygen on earth. Scientists are racing to understand how a rapidly warming planet is affecting these critical oxygen-creators.

This month, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is welcoming people to visit the laboratory and hear first-hand from our researchers as part of our annual open house. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, July 21 at the Bigelow...