Geoff
Trussell
Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine and Environmental Science, Director of Marine Science Center and the Coastal Sustainability Institute
Geoff Trussell in the Press
Researchers in Nahant collecting samples to map DNA from creatures of the deep
Steven Vollmer studies coral. One of the species on his radar is staghorn coral, which has long branches resembling male deer antlers. Found mostly off the Florida Keys and in the Caribbean, the coral is on the endangered species list because of white band disease, a condition involving a deadly ring of peeling that starts […]
The Daily Item
Northeastern’s Nahant facilities receive facelift
Geoff Trussell had just hired six new faculty, and the 50-year-old facilities at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center just weren’t going to cut it. So the university built its Nahant campus some brand new ones. Over the last year, walls have been knocked down and built up to turn obsolete and rundown classroom space into laboratories […]
