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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences seeks to understand key processes driving global ocean ecosystems, their evolution, and their fundamental relationship to life on Earth. The Laboratory’s research ranges from microbial oceanography — examining biological productivity and phytoplankton community dynamics in the world’s oceans at the molecular level — to the large-scale biogeochemical processes that drive interactions between ocean ecosystems and global environmental conditions.
More than sixty people witnessed a historic moment in the evolution of Bigelow Laboratory and Colby College at noon on July 23, 2010, when the two institutions signed a formal memorandum of understanding to work together to shape ocean science education and help train the next generation of oceanographers. 
The oceanfront ceremony took place on the Laboratory's Welch House lawn, with Colby President Bro Adams and Laboratory Executive Director Graham Shimmield joined by Colby trustees, faculty representatives, and staff; Bigelow trustees, scientists and staff; and invited guests, including Bill Card, representing U.S. Senator Susan Collins. The gathering celebrated a commitment to expand educational opportunities in marine sciences for Colby students, increase research collaboration between Colby faculty and the Laboratory's Senior Research Scientists, and build bridges across both institutions to connect ocean research with related policy issues. The new partnership was featured on Maine Public Broadcasting's Maine Things Considered.
From the Portland Press Herald: "Bigelow Laboratory joins the race to produce fuel from algae..."
Algal biofuel research at the Laboratory is featured in a page one article in the March 17, 2010 Portland Press Herald. Senior Research Scientist Dr. Willie Wilson, marine virologist and Interim Director of the Laboratory’s Provasoli-Guillard National Center for the Culture of Marine Phytoplankton, discusses the goals of the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to Boston-based Bodega Algae, LLC and Bigelow Laboratory for developing methods to grow the large quantities of algae needed for biofuel production. The six-month start-up grant is part of NSF's Small Business Innovation Research Program. (Photo by Dennis Griggs.) Read more...
Laboratory Researchers Featured on Our Ocean World
Airing on over 100 radio stations...and your computer!
Bigelow researchers Drs. Balch, Emerson, Matrai, Stepanauskas, and Wilson are being heard over more than 100 radio stations in the country in 90-second spots on Our Ocean World radio, describing current discoveries and their ongoing research about ocean ecosystems and global environmental processes. Our Ocean World was developed by Finger Lakes Productions International, in association with WETA, the National Science Foundation, and PBS Education. The program is part of a web-based learning portal for students and the public called Hear the Answer. The radio segments can be heard on Hear the Answer’s web portal and on the Laboratory's media webpage.