BRUNSWICK, Maine, Aug. 25 (TNSres) -- Bowdoin College issued the following news: By Rebecca Goldfine, Tom Porter, Adam Bovie Backed by Bowdoin fellowships, more than a dozen students this summer investigated sea star locomotion, lobster communication, microplastic pollution, and the implications of rising temperatures on ocean ecosystems. Depending on their project, the fellows on any given day were stationed at a bubbling seawater tank in the Schiller Coastal Studies Center's marine lab or r  more

PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts, Aug. 19 -- The Center for Coastal Studies issued the following news release: Friends of Barnstable Harbor is excited to publicize the final report for its Benthic Habitat Mapping Project. The mapping of Barnstable Harbor combines acoustic (sonar) and biological data to create a "snapshot in time" of the harbor's seafloor and the organisms that live there. The project began in the spring of 2018 and was performed by Mark Borrelli, Coastal Geologist from the Center of  more

DURHAM, New Hampshire, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire, along with other regional partners, have been monitoring the development of an expansive algal bloom that has formed in the Gulf of Maine--stretching more than a hundred miles from Massachusetts to Maine. The brown, coffee-colored bloom consists mostly of phytoplankton, or microalgae, that is not new to the waters off the coast of New Engl  more