Expert Consultation

Our Experience, Your Advantage

Bigelow Laboratory offers expert consulting services grounded in cutting-edge marine research and decades of applied experience. Our scientists work with clients across academia, industry, and government to develop practical, data-driven solutions to complex ocean, aquaculture, climate, and biotechnology challenges.

Whether optimizing algal growth systems, designing forecasting models, advising on aquaculture health, or deploying advanced monitoring tools, we provide tailored support backed by world-class expertise.

Services may include knowledge exchange, study development, literature reviews, report reviews, proposal reviews, and report writing. Explore our areas of expertise below to see how we can help you achieve your goals through actionable science.

Services Available:

• Algal growth optimization
• Algal natural products
• Algal processing

• Aquaculture, polyculture, and integrated multi-trophic aquaculture
• Aquaculture/wild fisheries interactions
• Diseases of wild fisheries and aquaculture
• Larval supply assessment
• Seagrass restoration
• Seaweed aquaculture
• Sugar kelp broodstock husbandry

• Bioinformatic analysis
• Data aggregation and summarization
• Data management and warehousing consultation
• Experimental design and analysis consultation
• Ocean data harvesting, aggregation, and summarization products (real-time, predictive, etc.)
• Phytoplankton analysis using conventional and full-spectrum flow cytometry
• Research software development
• Zooplankton acoustics analysis

• Selection, maintenance, and development of autonomous oceanographic sensor packages
• Chemistry assessment at contaminated sites (PFAS, PCBs, PAHs)
• Environmental DNA applications
• Marine carbon dioxide removal MRV tool development
• Remote sensing of coastal macrophytes
• Satellite mapping of ocean phytoplankton and biogeochemistry

• Analytical method development

• Climate projections for marine species
• Forecast system design consultation and co-production (AI, monitoring, etc.)
• Near-term forecasting (algae, toxins, pathogens, etc.)
• Epidemiological modeling