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Ecosystems serve up a healthy portion of prevention
A camel in the East Hammar Marsh near Basra, Iraq. Photo by Brian Helmuth. A few months ago incoming faculty member Brian Helmuth saw a camel on the side of a river in the East Hammar Marsh in Basra,...
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Onward and downward
Sylvia Earle’s lecture kicked off the Sustaining Coastal Cities Conference on Wednesday evening. Photo by Brooks Canaday. Between 1969 and 1972, 12 people (all of them men) walked on the moon, took an...
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A hard bargain for sea stars
Photo courtesy of Brian Helmuth. Here’s an image for you: A sea star eats by basically vomiting up its stomach, sticking it inside the shell of a tasty morsel, say a mussel, and hanging out all day...
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Blue is the new green
Salt marsh at high tide. Photo via Thinkstock. When I was a kid, back when the hole in the ozone layer was the big topic of environmental discussion, I was obsessed with saving the rain forests. I’d...
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Guest post: Life lessons from counting phytoplankton
As part of her co-op, Sam Wessel is doing research with graduate student Jennifer Elliott at the Marine Science Center this semester. Photo courtesy of Sam Wessel. Today’s post was generously...
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Antarctic co-op: The mission
This is a guest blog post by Eileen Sheehan, a biochemistry student at Northeastern University who is on co-op at Palmer Station, Antarctica. She will providing a series of guest blog posts about her...
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