Our cutting-edge science is done primarily by undergraduates. We are a larger group than most undergraduate labs, something enabled by a lot of peer- and near-peer mentoring (a scaffolded mentoring structure).
We are very intentional about training students how to BE scientists, not just how to DO specific scientific tasks.
The pages below are new as of 2023 and are slowly being populated. They will be maintained by student research groups, and provide a snapshot of some of our ongoing projects. Since we don’t always have students working on every project, some pages will go a long time between updates. The most recently updated projects appear at the top.
Astronomers use High Contrast Imaging to detect and observe exoplanets revolving around their much brighter companion stars. Implementing these astronomical techniques on seafloor sample images collected by researchers at the Boston University Biology Laboratory, we are able to differentiate the signals of mineral grains and microbial cells.
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