Bigelow lab wins $9M for research center
The Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay has won a $9.1 million grant to build a new research center.
The grant from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology comes a week after the lab won $4.9 million from the National Science Foundation for its Center for Ocean Biogeochemistry and Climate Change. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, and U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, yesterday announced the funding from NIST, which awarded grants to only five institutions nationwide out of a total of 124 applicants, according to press releases. The center also received a $4.45 million award from the Maine Technology Asset Fund.
The 7,000-square-foot center will support research on the role of plankton in the world's oceans and climate change, and will create 40 jobs, according to the release from Pingree's office. The lab has been renting space from the Department of Marine Resources and recently broke ground on the new campus in East Boothbay.
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