Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting

Leveraging Data to Identify Marine Risks and Opportunities

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is expanding what’s possible in ocean monitoring and forecasting. We’re working to predict hazards to human health, increase resilience, and provide communities and stakeholders the data they need to make informed decisions and solve real-world problems.

Leveraging state-of-the-art research infrastructure, long-running monitoring programs, our data-science expertise, and the latest AI and molecular advances, our scientists are developing ocean forecasting tools that are responsive to societal needs and reveal new opportunities in a changing ocean.

Resources

• Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series (GNATS)
• National Ocean Economics Program
• Tandy Center for Ocean Forecasting

Media Coverage

• Tracking right whales the right way... by thinking small September 16, 2025Oceanographic Magazine
• Sharks August 14, 2025Maine Calling
• Jellyfish July 8, 2025Maine Calling
• A booming bloom returns to the Gulf of Maine June 21, 2025NASA Earth Observatory
• NOAA predicts colder than normal deep-water temperatures for the Gulf of Maine May 29, 2025Maine Public
• Researchers hope tracking zooplankton from space will help endangered whales May 29, 2025CBC News