The Ecosystems Center
"The Ecosystems Center was founded four decades ago to investigate the structure and functioning of ecological systems and to predict their response to changing environmental conditions. At that time the changing global carbon cycle was just becoming recognized as an urgent environmental issue and became one of the focal points for research at the Center."
--Anne Giblin, Ecosystems Center Director
In the News
Synthetic Biology: A New Tool to Tackle Climate Change? | MIT Global Change
On December 3 and 4, Boston University convened a workshop exploring how synthetic biology—the engineering of genetic “circuits” in living cells and organisms to enable them to perform...
Zoe Cardon, MBL Ecosystems Center, elected to ESA's Governing Board
Ecological Society of America Announces New Members Elected to Governing Board
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is proud to announce the election results for its governing board members....
Inside Science | Warming Tropical Soils May Release Huge Amounts of Stored Carbon
The heat-trapping gases humans release into the air are warming the planet. But humble soil-dwelling bacteria and fungi also release heat-trapping gases, and those gases could determine just how hot...
WBUR | MBL’s Anne Giblin Comments on U.N. Climate Report on Oceans
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report Wednesday detailing how climate change is affecting oceans and the frozen world. It’s the final of three special reports, and,...