By Andrea Volpe Note: Harvard University Professor Colleen Cavanaugh is an MBL Whitman Center scientist and Speaker of the MBL Society. In this interview, she discusses her longtime association with Woods Hole, including an undergraduate research project on horseshoe crab mating, subsequent work with microbial ecology pioneer John Hobbie at the MBL Ecosystems Center, and
By Buzzards Bay Coalition A few years ago, Jack Reynolds noticed that salt marshes on the Westport Rivers were collapsing. “Big chunks of the marshes were falling in,” he remembered. Reynolds used to fish on the Westport River back in the 1970s each spring, when young striped bass move into the estuary to feed among
By Raleigh McElvery The MBL is home to a variety of researchers studying a myriad of life forms, but Jane Maienschein is an expert on one particular, understudied species—a sub-classification of historian known as the “historian of science.” She also happens to be one herself. Maienschein has co-directed the annual Seminar in the History of
Proud to get the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in Public Comm of Life Sciences, for microbio reporting +book pic.twitter.com/b3oq18T2c2 — Ed Yong (@edyong209) July 29, 2016 Yong was selected for his excellence in science writing, which includes his popular blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, his work with national publications such as The Atlantic,
Posted by University of Chicago graduate student Z. Yan Wang, who studies the neurobiology of octopuses in the laboratory of Associate Professor Clifton Ragsdale: .@MBLScience squid bbs hatching 🙂 hello world 👋🏼 pic.twitter.com/9bTL8nRz8Z — Z Yan Wang (@ZYanWang) August 16, 2016
Bethany Brookshire, a staff writer for Science News for Students, just spent a week at Toolik Field Station in Arctic Alaska, during its brief and busy summer research season. Among the scientists at Toolik each year are people from the MBL Ecosystems Center, including Gus Shaver, who directs NSF’s Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research site at
By Raleigh McElvery
Last week, the MBLWHOI Library opened wide the doors to its trove of ancient artifacts, composed of scientific works dating as far back as the 16th century. This Rare Books and Archives exhibition occurred in conjunction with the annual MBL Society Meeting.
John E. Dowling, Gund Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard University, has contributed extraordinarily to MBL research, education, and governance since the late 1960s. A distinguished vision researcher and MBL Emeritus President Trustee, Dowling also co-founded three MBL courses: Neurobiology, which he started with Michael Bennett in 1970; Fundamental Issues in Vision Research, launched in 1992;
By Raleigh McElvery The Marine Biological Laboratory’s summer lunchtime lecture series, SUCCESS, kicked off its fourth year on June 22 with a talk by Katja Brose, editor-in-chief of the journal Neuron. SUCCESS presents speakers on an array of career-related topics and is designed to advance the professional development of both burgeoning and established scientists—from high
For the non-scientific onlooker, the Woods Hole July 4 parade is both hilarious and mystifying. What exactly are these zanily costumed, dancing MBL students and scientists representing? #FourthofJuly @MBLScience #parade “The participants are elated to show #science on parade while the observers are a tad mystified” – my dad — Julie Silver (@JulieAnnSilver) July 4,