The Marine Science Center and Girls Inc of Lynn are partnering again this year to connect young people in Lynn with STEM resources and community projects through Beach Sisters. We are thrilled to introduce this year’s AmeriCorps MPF Fellow, Nicole Banks! Hello! My name is Nicole (she/her) and I am so excited to be serving with the Massachusetts Promise Fellowship as the Northeastern University Marine … Continue reading Meet Nicole, our 2020-21 Beach Sisters Fellow

By Muna A. Continue reading Video: the Beach Sisters investigate inland flooding

The undergraduate research capacity of the Marine Science Center is one of the cornerstones of the program and community.  Each semester, students from Northeastern’s renowned cooperative education program join the MSC community, working with research labs and program teams to increase research productivity and breadth and to provide invaluable learning experiences for the students.   This past semester’s co-op students were able to overcome the challenges and upheavals of COVID-19 and presented their recent research at the biannual Undergraduate Research Symposium last month.  The Symposium, … Continue reading Undergraduate researchers share science and insights at Virtual Symposium

When researchers anywhere in the world want to study biodiversity, they turn to the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN), an international network of institutions, organizations and other networks that share an interest in long-term preservation of genomic samples representing the non-human diversity of life on Earth. GGBN features a database of genomic samples in a searchable database of over one million DNA samples. Now thanks … Continue reading OGL Brings Marine Biodiversity to a Global Research Network

How can we better understand the complex ocean dynamics in places highly sensitive to climate change? PhD Candidate Jess Gould seeks to answer this question by investigating the potential for reconstructing climate history from algal growth in the Canadian Arctic – and she has just earned a prestigious research award to do it.  Gould, an Ontario native, has just received the Alexander Graham Bell Canada … Continue reading Finding climate clues beneath Arctic waves

Marine Science Center Outreach Program Co-op student, Tess, was on the team that helped bring Salt the Inflatable Whale to Johnson Elementary School in Nahant earlier this year.  Here, she reflects on the excitement of the day. Earlier this year, on a brisk later winter day, our team showed the entire student body at Johnson Elementary School what the inside of a whale looks like.  … Continue reading The View from Inside the Whale

Our Co-op, Josie, joined the Outreach Team on the very same day as our Annual High School Marine Science Symposium.  She shares her reflections here on the events of the day and on the larger goals of the team she is now a vital part of. Touch a plate of baleen and look at the krill that it’s made to catch; or, in the next … Continue reading A Day of Marine Discovery