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The MBL’s history is rooted in the 1871 establishment of the United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Fisheries. Spencer Fullerton Baird served as the first U.S. Fish Commissioner, and, in 1885, he established a permanent research station for the Fish Commission in Woods Hole, MA.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science. [1] Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution that was independent for most of its history, but became officially affiliated with the University of Chicago on July ...
Botany Course Photograph, 1895, Collecting Specimens. faculty and students in the 1895 Botany course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Participants collecting specimens.
The Marine Biological Laboratory was founded in Woods Hole, MA, in 1888 as a summer research and teaching institution. Boasting a long history of excellence in research and education, the MBL has run internationally acclaimed courses, and hosted leaders in their field researchers from the day it opened.
At its founding in 1930, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution joined a thriving ocean science community in the village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, that included the Marine Biological Laboratory and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Quickly access resources and logistical information for students, instructors and researchers. The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science located in Woods Hole, MA.
In 1988 the Marine Biological Laboratory celebrated its centennial. In this well-researched, sometimes humorous, always human "biography" of this eclectic institution, historian of science Jane Maienschein catches a glimpse of what it is that has made the MBL so special to all who have spent any time there.
