April 6, 2013

Why Are Our Salt Marshes Falling Apart?

Salt marsh creeks at Plum Island Estuary, Massachusetts, are lined with lush, smooth cordgrass. The plant's below-ground roots and above-ground leaves build and maintain salt marshes. Credit: David S. Johnson

Printable version (pdf) CONTACT: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory dkenney@mbl.edu; 508-289-7139; 508-685-3525 Video Interview with Linda Deegan at Plum Island Estuary: http://youtu.be/eP3hRkX03Q8 WOODS HOLE, Mass.—Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern seaboard and other highly developed coastlines, without anyone fully understanding why. This week in the [...]

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University and MBL Sign Agreement on Scientific Cooperation

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan. Photo by Kiyohiko Higashide

Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 5, 2012 Contacts: Kaoru Natori, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University +81-98-966-2389; kaoru.natori@oist.jp Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory                                                                       508-289-7139; dkenney@mbl.edu Okinawa, Japan, and Woods Hole, Mass., USA—One scientific institution held its inaugural ceremonies last year, while the other will celebrate the 125th anniversary of its founding [...]

Insanely Popular: MBL Squid Research/Rap Video Goes Viral

Nerves in red can be easily traced among the distinctive chromatophores and iridophores that they innervate. Credit: Wardill, Gonzalez-Bellido, Crook & Hanlon, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

It’s Hot Down Here: How Some Microbes Make a Living in Undersea Volcanoes

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Traveling on a Woods Hole Passport: From Physiology to the World

2012 Physiology course participants. Credit: Dyche Mullins

HIT: Dancers, Scientists Collaborate in Physiology Course

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