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Meet ‘Neptune’, the blue lobster, from Northeastern University

Northeastern University has created a YouTube video documenting the lobster’s, named Neptune, journey and the local high school students who visited the Marine Science Center to see the unique crustacean.

Scientific American

Saved from Shuckers, Oysters Fight Rising Seas

Restoration projects must also choose their sites carefully, said John Grabowski, a marine scientist at Northeastern University. They must be mindful of water quality and the softness of sediments so oysters don’t catch diseases or get buried in mud.

Lobstermen: fishers or farmers?

One of the more puzzling recent trends in ocean management has been the record hauls of lobsters that have come in over the past few years. Could the reason be that lobstermen are actually more like farmers than fishermen? That’s the provocative suggestion of a new article in Modern Farmer, which cites research by Northeastern […]

A hand holding a blue lobster.

Meet Neptune, the rare blue lobster donated to Northeastern’s Marine Science Center in Nahant

Only one in 2 million lobsters are blue, so Neptune is a star attraction in Nahant. But why is the crustacean the color blue?

Treating Gulf of Maine cod as two distinct subpopulations could help fisheries management, Northeastern University Marine Science Center researchers find

Although fisheries managers treat cod in the Gulf of Maine as a single population, the fish can be divided into two, genetically distinct subgroups. Researchers at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center have found that the unique behavior and lifecycles of these two groups may affect the growth of the species. .

Everything you need to know about oysters

On National Oyster Day, two Northeastern ecology experts weigh in on whether mass consumption of the briny, melt-in-your-mouth mollusks pose a danger to our coastal ecosystems.

Better science for better fisheries management

Northeastern associate professor Jon Grabowski, an expert in marine science and fisheries and a member of the New England Fishery Management Council’s Habitat Plan Development Team, is working with fisheries scientists and managers to develop tools that will enhance fisheries habitat management.

Members of Congress visit Marine Science Center

U.S. Reps. John Tierney and Katherine Clark, as well as staff members from U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren's offices, visited Northeastern's unique urban coastal research facility in Nahant on Wednesday to learn more about the interdisciplinary work taking place there.

Stuck in the middle with oysters and crabs

New research from marine scientists at Northeastern shows that the behavior of middle predators in marine food webs plays an important role in the welfare of the whole system—and that, like our behavior, middle predator behavior is pretty fickle.