Why do sea stars get sick? What does that mean for our oceans? Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) is collecting samples to help solve these mysteries. Last summer, students and scientists at the Northeastern University Marine Science Center noticed something odd about the...

OGL Records Biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest For Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) and Northeastern University’s Three Seas Program, the pristine rocky shores and dazzling kelp forests of Puget Sound are real-world “classrooms” where young marine scientists are...

Can you imagine that a shark or an eel might help your doctor to treat cancer? Ocean Genome Legacy is collaborating with the Austrian Academy of Sciences to study marine genomes in the search for new cancer therapies. Cancer cells are harmful because their genetic...

Eelgrass might be the most important plant you’ve never heard of. Found in coastal waters throughout the northern hemisphere, it creates vast undersea “meadows” that provide essential habitat and food for marine life, including commercially important fish and...

On Wednesday, March 23, Ocean Genome Legacy called all hands on deck for a beachside bioblitz on Cape Cod. Hosted in partnership with Pleasant Bay Community Boating (PBCB) in Chatham, MA, this day of biodiversity discovery rallied students and teachers from Monomoy...

Have you visited an aquarium lately? Did you wonder where all those fish come from? Those dazzling fish on display are important ambassadors for education and conservation, inspiring young and old to love and protect the aquatic world. Now, Ocean Genome Legacy is...

You may have heard that one “human year” equals seven “dog years” because dogs age faster than humans. But did you know there’s a small multicolored fish that ages about 200 times faster than we do? The African turquoise killifish is the latest addition to the Ocean...

This Valentine’s Day, Ocean Genome Legacy is saying “be mine” to some rare and colorful samples of New England’s favorite crustacean, the American lobster. You know that cooked lobsters are bright red, and you may know that most live lobsters are greenish-black. But...

Have you made your New Year’s resolution? Ocean Genome Legacy’s resolution is to double down our preservation of DNA from endangered species like the Guadalupe fur seal. Now, our goal is to double our marine mammal holdings over the next five years, and we need your...

Ocean Genome Legacy rang in the New Year with a very special delivery of fresh fish! OGL is partnering with two agencies to build our collections of local fisheries species: the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...