1,374 CONTRIBUTING TO KNOWLEDGE
BREAKING NEW GROUND • first of its kind in the world, the Single Cell Genomics Center has led to major discoveries in microbial ecology, evolution, and bio-prospecting.
DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS, APPLICATIONS, UNDERSTANDING The Laboratory’s commitment to innovation is inspiring advances in biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and natural nutritional supplements from marine resources. New knowledge about how the microbial marine ecosystem works has, and will continue to, provide understanding needed to protect and conserve the global ocean for the next 40 years and beyond.
PAPERS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS FROM 1974-2014.
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES
• advancing understanding of changes in the Gulf of Maine with the longestrunning time series of coastal phytoplankton productivity in the nation. • first long-term automated, autonomous on ice sampling of atmospheric chemistry in the Arctic Ocean. • groundbreaking discoveries on how microorganisms survive and thrive on and below the ocean seafloor, using iron and other elements to grow. • steering exploration of how nutrients limit algal growth in the global ocean by studying individual cells.
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF OCEAN SCIENTISTS
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
Over the past 40 years, more than 700 Maine high school students, college students, and post-doctoral scientists from around the world have benefitedTHE from BEGINNING working side-by-side with Bigelow Laboratory On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with researchers. Fifty teachers have taken what learned oceanographic sampling equipment they landed at the dock in West Boothbay at the Laboratory and shared it with countless other students. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
LEARNboat MORE ORwith TO DONATE, On July 1, 1974,TO a 45-foot filled
VISIT BIGELOW.ORG oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay OR CALLfor 207 315-2567 X104. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
BIGELOW LABORATORY RESEARCHERS
On July 1, 1974, a 43-foot boat filled with oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
• pioneered the use of satellite imagery to track ocean productivity. • first to use flow cytometry, a tool used to count cancer cells, illuminating the mysteries of life forms within seawater. • mastered the art of culturing the smallest life forms in the ocean, making advanced understanding possible. • developed fluid imaging technology, a tool that makes invisible cells visible, enhancing what is known about aquatic microscopic life.
CHANGING COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY A non-hierarchical structure that fosters collaborative scientific inquiry, innovation, and enterprise has given rise to significant advances over THE BEGINNING On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with the past 40 years revealing what is known about microscopic marine oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay life and how they affect global ocean processes. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE WAY RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED
THE THE BEGINNING BEGINNING On July On July 1, 1974, 1, 1974, a 45-foot a 45-foot boatboat filledfilled withwith oceanographic samplin oceanographic equipment landed sampling at the equipment dock in West landed Boothbay at the Harbor dock in Maine, West Boothbay the beginning Harbor of Bigelow Maine, the Laboratory beginning forof Ocean Bigelow Sciences. Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
BIGELOW LABORATORY RESEARCHERS
On July 1, 1974, a 43-foot boat filled with oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
• pioneered the use of satellite imagery to track ocean productivity. • first to use flow cytometry, a tool used to count cancer cells, illuminating the mysteries of life forms within seawater. • mastered the art of culturing the smallest life forms in the ocean, making advanced understanding possible. • developed fluid imaging technology, a tool that makes invisible cells visible, enhancing what is known about aquatic microscopic life.
CHANGING COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY A non-hierarchical structure that fosters collaborative scientific inquiry, innovation, and enterprise has given rise to significant advances over THE BEGINNING On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with the past 40 years revealing what is known about microscopic marine oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay life and how they affect global ocean processes. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE WAY RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED
THE THE BEGINNING BEGINNING On July On July 1, 1974, 1, 1974, a 45-foot a 45-foot boatboat filledfilled withwith oceanographic samplin oceanographic equipment landed sampling at the equipment dock in West landed Boothbay at the Harbor dock in Maine, West Boothbay the beginning Harbor of Bigelow Maine, the Laboratory beginning forof Ocean Bigelow Sciences. Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
BIGELOW LABORATORY RESEARCHERS
On July 1, 1974, a 43-foot boat filled with oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
• pioneered the use of satellite imagery to track ocean productivity. • first to use flow cytometry, a tool used to count cancer cells, illuminating the mysteries of life forms within seawater. • mastered the art of culturing the smallest life forms in the ocean, making advanced understanding possible. • developed fluid imaging technology, a tool that makes invisible cells visible, enhancing what is known about aquatic microscopic life.
CHANGING COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY A non-hierarchical structure that fosters collaborative scientific inquiry, innovation, and enterprise has given rise to significant advances over THE BEGINNING On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with the past 40 years revealing what is known about microscopic marine oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay life and how they affect global ocean processes. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE WAY RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED
THE THE BEGINNING BEGINNING On July On July 1, 1974, 1, 1974, a 45-foot a 45-foot boatboat filledfilled withwith oceanographic samplin oceanographic equipment landed sampling at the equipment dock in West landed Boothbay at the Harbor dock in Maine, West Boothbay the beginning Harbor of Bigelow Maine, the Laboratory beginning forof Ocean Bigelow Sciences. Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
BIGELOW LABORATORY RESEARCHERS
On July 1, 1974, a 43-foot boat filled with oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
• pioneered the use of satellite imagery to track ocean productivity. • first to use flow cytometry, a tool used to count cancer cells, illuminating the mysteries of life forms within seawater. • mastered the art of culturing the smallest life forms in the ocean, making advanced understanding possible. • developed fluid imaging technology, a tool that makes invisible cells visible, enhancing what is known about aquatic microscopic life.
CHANGING COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY A non-hierarchical structure that fosters collaborative scientific inquiry, innovation, and enterprise has given rise to significant advances over THE BEGINNING On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with the past 40 years revealing what is known about microscopic marine oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay life and how they affect global ocean processes. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE WAY RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED
THE THE BEGINNING BEGINNING On July On July 1, 1974, 1, 1974, a 45-foot a 45-foot boatboat filledfilled withwith oceanographic samplin oceanographic equipment landed sampling at the equipment dock in West landed Boothbay at the Harbor dock in Maine, West Boothbay the beginning Harbor of Bigelow Maine, the Laboratory beginning forof Ocean Bigelow Sciences. Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
BIGELOW LABORATORY RESEARCHERS
On July 1, 1974, a 43-foot boat filled with oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
• pioneered the use of satellite imagery to track ocean productivity. • first to use flow cytometry, a tool used to count cancer cells, illuminating the mysteries of life forms within seawater. • mastered the art of culturing the smallest life forms in the ocean, making advanced understanding possible. • developed fluid imaging technology, a tool that makes invisible cells visible, enhancing what is known about aquatic microscopic life.
CHANGING COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY A non-hierarchical structure that fosters collaborative scientific inquiry, innovation, and enterprise has given rise to significant advances over THE BEGINNING On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with the past 40 years revealing what is known about microscopic marine oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay life and how they affect global ocean processes. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE WAY RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED
THE THE BEGINNING BEGINNING On July On July 1, 1974, 1, 1974, a 45-foot a 45-foot boatboat filledfilled withwith oceanographic samplin oceanographic equipment landed sampling at the equipment dock in West landed Boothbay at the Harbor dock in Maine, West Boothbay the beginning Harbor of Bigelow Maine, the Laboratory beginning forof Ocean Bigelow Sciences. Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
1,374 CONTRIBUTING TO KNOWLEDGE
BREAKING NEW GROUND • first of its kind in the world, the Single Cell Genomics Center has led to major discoveries in microbial ecology, evolution, and bio-prospecting.
DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS, APPLICATIONS, UNDERSTANDING The Laboratory’s commitment to innovation is inspiring advances in biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and natural nutritional supplements from marine resources. New knowledge about how the microbial marine ecosystem works has, and will continue to, provide understanding needed to protect and conserve the global ocean for the next 40 years and beyond.
PAPERS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS FROM 1974-2014.
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES
• advancing understanding of changes in the Gulf of Maine with the longestrunning time series of coastal phytoplankton productivity in the nation. • first long-term automated, autonomous on ice sampling of atmospheric chemistry in the Arctic Ocean. • groundbreaking discoveries on how microorganisms survive and thrive on and below the ocean seafloor, using iron and other elements to grow. • steering exploration of how nutrients limit algal growth in the global ocean by studying individual cells.
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF OCEAN SCIENTISTS
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
Over the past 40 years, more than 700 Maine high school students, college students, and post-doctoral scientists from around the world have benefitedTHE from BEGINNING working side-by-side with Bigelow Laboratory On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with researchers. Fifty teachers have taken what learned oceanographic sampling equipment they landed at the dock in West Boothbay at the Laboratory and shared it with countless other students. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
LEARNboat MORE ORwith TO DONATE, On July 1, 1974,TO a 45-foot filled
VISIT BIGELOW.ORG oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay OR CALLfor 207 315-2567 X104. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory Ocean Sciences.
1,374 CONTRIBUTING TO KNOWLEDGE
BREAKING NEW GROUND • first of its kind in the world, the Single Cell Genomics Center has led to major discoveries in microbial ecology, evolution, and bio-prospecting.
DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS, APPLICATIONS, UNDERSTANDING The Laboratory’s commitment to innovation is inspiring advances in biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and natural nutritional supplements from marine resources. New knowledge about how the microbial marine ecosystem works has, and will continue to, provide understanding needed to protect and conserve the global ocean for the next 40 years and beyond.
PAPERS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS FROM 1974-2014.
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES
• advancing understanding of changes in the Gulf of Maine with the longestrunning time series of coastal phytoplankton productivity in the nation. • first long-term automated, autonomous on ice sampling of atmospheric chemistry in the Arctic Ocean. • groundbreaking discoveries on how microorganisms survive and thrive on and below the ocean seafloor, using iron and other elements to grow. • steering exploration of how nutrients limit algal growth in the global ocean by studying individual cells.
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF OCEAN SCIENTISTS
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
Over the past 40 years, more than 700 Maine high school students, college students, and post-doctoral scientists from around the world have benefitedTHE from BEGINNING working side-by-side with Bigelow Laboratory On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with researchers. Fifty teachers have taken what learned oceanographic sampling equipment they landed at the dock in West Boothbay at the Laboratory and shared it with countless other students. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
LEARNboat MORE ORwith TO DONATE, On July 1, 1974,TO a 45-foot filled
VISIT BIGELOW.ORG oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay OR CALLfor 207 315-2567 X104. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory Ocean Sciences.
1,374 CONTRIBUTING TO KNOWLEDGE
BREAKING NEW GROUND • first of its kind in the world, the Single Cell Genomics Center has led to major discoveries in microbial ecology, evolution, and bio-prospecting.
DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS, APPLICATIONS, UNDERSTANDING The Laboratory’s commitment to innovation is inspiring advances in biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and natural nutritional supplements from marine resources. New knowledge about how the microbial marine ecosystem works has, and will continue to, provide understanding needed to protect and conserve the global ocean for the next 40 years and beyond.
PAPERS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS FROM 1974-2014.
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES
• advancing understanding of changes in the Gulf of Maine with the longestrunning time series of coastal phytoplankton productivity in the nation. • first long-term automated, autonomous on ice sampling of atmospheric chemistry in the Arctic Ocean. • groundbreaking discoveries on how microorganisms survive and thrive on and below the ocean seafloor, using iron and other elements to grow. • steering exploration of how nutrients limit algal growth in the global ocean by studying individual cells.
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF OCEAN SCIENTISTS
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
Over the past 40 years, more than 700 Maine high school students, college students, and post-doctoral scientists from around the world have benefitedTHE from BEGINNING working side-by-side with Bigelow Laboratory On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with researchers. Fifty teachers have taken what learned oceanographic sampling equipment they landed at the dock in West Boothbay at the Laboratory and shared it with countless other students. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
LEARNboat MORE ORwith TO DONATE, On July 1, 1974,TO a 45-foot filled
VISIT BIGELOW.ORG oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay OR CALLfor 207 315-2567 X104. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory Ocean Sciences.
1,374 CONTRIBUTING TO KNOWLEDGE
BREAKING NEW GROUND • first of its kind in the world, the Single Cell Genomics Center has led to major discoveries in microbial ecology, evolution, and bio-prospecting.
DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS, APPLICATIONS, UNDERSTANDING The Laboratory’s commitment to innovation is inspiring advances in biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and natural nutritional supplements from marine resources. New knowledge about how the microbial marine ecosystem works has, and will continue to, provide understanding needed to protect and conserve the global ocean for the next 40 years and beyond.
PAPERS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS FROM 1974-2014.
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES
• advancing understanding of changes in the Gulf of Maine with the longestrunning time series of coastal phytoplankton productivity in the nation. • first long-term automated, autonomous on ice sampling of atmospheric chemistry in the Arctic Ocean. • groundbreaking discoveries on how microorganisms survive and thrive on and below the ocean seafloor, using iron and other elements to grow. • steering exploration of how nutrients limit algal growth in the global ocean by studying individual cells.
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF OCEAN SCIENTISTS
THE BEGINNING
On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with
oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
Over the past 40 years, more than 700 Maine high school students, college students, and post-doctoral scientists from around the world have benefitedTHE from BEGINNING working side-by-side with Bigelow Laboratory On July 1, 1974, a 45-foot boat filled with researchers. Fifty teachers have taken what learned oceanographic sampling equipment they landed at the dock in West Boothbay at the Laboratory and shared it with countless other students. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
THE BEGINNING
LEARNboat MORE ORwith TO DONATE, On July 1, 1974,TO a 45-foot filled
VISIT BIGELOW.ORG oceanographic sampling equipment landed at the dock in West Boothbay OR CALLfor 207 315-2567 X104. Harbor Maine, the beginning of Bigelow Laboratory Ocean Sciences.