If you spend any time at the MBL, you’ll soon be dazzled by the images and movies that stream from the labs and courses. Here is a small sample that bubbled into our news feed in 2018. Here’s to a bright New Year!
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By Stephanie McPherson
The macroalgae that grow in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China make up the world’s largest seaweed bloom, by making use of an unusually high supply of nitrogen discharged into the sea due to multiple human activities, according to a recent study in Scientific Reports.
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By Sarah Lawhun
MBL Whitman Fellow Rafael Yuste of Columbia University and his Hydra Lab are mapping the nervous system of a small, freshwater organism to create a predictive model of its behavior.
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By Hannah Knighton
Capt. Bill Klimm is exactly the kind of guy you’d think of when you hear the word “fisherman,” with his dark blue jeans, plain grey shirt, and a ball cap shading his slightly sunburned face. His eyes are a startling shade of blue, so vivid it was like all the time he spent on the ocean suspended the colors within him
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By Sarah Lawhun
2018 Whitman Center Fellow Janet Sheung used her understanding of biophysics to address how Stentor, a giant, unicellular organism, can regenerate from just a tiny fragment of its cell.
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