A New Life for Gemma
By Mark Wolverton
After nearly 40 years as a fishing and specimen-collecting vessel, the MBL’s hardy Gemma is getting a major upgrade and a redefined mission.
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The MBL in Living Color: Selected Microscopy Images and Movies
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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High Nitrogen Loads from Land & Air Foster World’s Largest Green Tide
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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Whitman Center Lab Bets on Hydra to Unlock Nervous System Architecture
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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A Generation on the Gemma: A Tribute to Capt. Bill Klimm
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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