Lab News

News, announcements, and general goings-on around ZEAL.

Do you DARE?

Introducing the Distributed Aquatic Response Experiments Network. ZEAL is excited to be part of this new network for collaborative experiments in aquatic ecology!

Student Research Symposium

Big congrats to Taisiya, Nathan, Sean, and Lindsey for their presentations at the Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium!

ZEAL and Gignoux-Wolfsohn Lab funded to study oyster reef biodiversity

Supported by the new Community Biodiversity Grant program from the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game, this new grant will support surveys of the biodiversity…

Summer 2025

ZEAL has wrapped up our first summer of science! While the final pieces of equipment (and the lab’s new plankton nets!) were being set-up, undergraduates Taisiya, Nathan…

ZEAL goes to Poland!

After several years of planning, Matt finally made it over to Poland to kick off a new collaborative project on freshwater copepod diversity. The project brings together…

ZEAL wraps up our first semester

Closing out a busy semester. Outgoing senior Patrick Burns helped to get our first projects up and running, including some work on the frequency of different size morphs in E…

Sasaki Lab officially opens!

There’s a steady stream of deliveries coming in now as we start to equip the lab. So exciting to see things start to come together!