May 19, 2013

New Sculpture, “Flukes,” Graces Waterfront Park

Gordon Gund's "Flukes" is an abstract form inspired by the shape of a whale's tail.

The MBL’s Waterfront Park in Woods Hole was enhanced this week with the installation of “Flukes,” a cast-bronze sculpture generously donated to the MBL by the artist, Gordon Gund of Princeton, New Jersey. The sculpture was inspired by an encounter Gund had with pilot whales one summer on Nantucket Island. A pod of whales had [...]

Deep, Permeable Soils Buffer Impacts of Agricultural Fertilization on Streams and Rivers in Southern Amazon, MBL Study Finds

Rain over a soybean field at Tanguro Ranch in the Upper Xingu watershed, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Intensive crop farming in the Amazon depends on regular rainfall, but lower amounts of water returned to the atmosphere from cropland compared with forest has the potential to change rainfall amount and timing over large areas. Credit: Christopher Neill, MBL

Contact:  Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) 508-289-7139; dkenney@mbl.edu Printable version (pdf) WOODS HOLE, Mass.—The often damaging impacts of intensive agriculture on nearby streams, rivers, and their wildlife has been well documented in temperate zones, such as North America and Europe. Yet a new study in an important tropical zone—the fast-changing southern Amazon, a region [...]

Deep Carbon Observatory Releases Volume, “Carbon on Earth”

MBL Scientists Find Genes Linked to Human Neurological Disorders in Sea Lamprey Genome

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Discovery will accelerate research on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury Printable version (pdf) MBL, WOODS HOLE, Mass.— Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence [...]

MBL Scientists Present Leading Edge of Microscopy at AAAS

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Sensing the Light, but Not to See: New Insight on the Evolution of Photosensitive Cells

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Draft of National Climate Assessment, Led by MBL’s Jerry Melillo, is Released

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MBL Scientists Find “Bipolar” Distribution of Marine Bacteria, Refuting Idea that “Everything is Everywhere”

The waters of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of several sites where water samples were collected for study of bacterial distributions at the MBL. Photo courtesy of Hugh Ducklow

Printable version (pdf)   Contact: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory 508-289-7139; dkenney@mbl.edu WOODS HOLE, MASS.—In another blow to the “Everything is Everywhere” tenet of bacterial distribution in the ocean, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have found “bipolar” species of bacteria that occur in the Arctic and Antarctic, but nowhere else. And, surprisingly, they [...]

Having Serious Fun in the Physiology Course

Joint Brown University/MBL Graduate Program Awards Four Ph.D.s in 2012

Shelby Riskin performing field work in Brazil.

Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 21, 2012 Contacts: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory 508-289-7139 or 508-289-7423; dkenney@mbl.edu or comm@mbl.edu David Orenstein, Brown University 401-863-1862; David_Orenstein@brown.edu WOODS HOLE, Mass., and PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Three women successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertations in the Brown-MBL Partnership and Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences in the [...]