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Public Aquariums: More than just a fun day out?
Everyone knows that public aquariums are fun, but did you know that many of them also play important roles in conservation and research? OGL partners with public aquariums around the country to help discover and preserve the genomic diversity of the ocean. Since...
Freezing Antarctic Icefish in Time!
We are extremely excited to join Northeastern University’s Professor Bill Detrich, and the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs, in launching the new Polar Genetic Resource Collection (PGRC) at OGL! This collection will preserve thousands of DNA...
Nightmare fuel from the sea
It is Halloween again, and time for us to dress up and terrify our neighbors! Let’s look at the winners of this year’s spookiest creatures of the deep blue sea! Second place—Chondrocladia verticillata What if SpongeBob developed a taste for fresh meat? The answer...
FCC special event station (W4U) celebrating the Alabama Undersea Forest
Calling all ham radio operators: The Federal Communications Commission has authorized special event callsign W4U to operate through Saturday, 11 September 2021. This special event station, the “Gulf of Mexico Underwater Forests,” will educate the worldwide amateur...
Meet OGL’s new faces—and their new projects!
This month, OGL is welcoming a new postdoctoral fellow and two new co-op students! Did you know that some bacteria stab their competitors with poison darts? In her PhD research at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Lauren Speare showed how glowing symbionts use this strategy to...
Barcoding the Antarctic One Invertebrate at a Time
The icy waters of the Antarctic’s Southern Ocean may seem inhospitable, but they are teeming with life! Now, thanks to Northeastern University Professor Bill Detrich and former OGL scientist Annie Evankow, OGL is sharing some of...