Local Research with Global Reach
The Gloucester Marine Station (GMS) creates hands-on learning opportunities. Faculty collaborate with coastal communities and the public and private partners who operate with and within them. Located in the southern Gulf of Maine, the station offers an immersive marine and coastal research, learning, and engagement experience with far-reaching applications throughout Massachusetts, New England, and beyond.
The station provides practical experience in coastal and marine systems and engagement with the people and communities who rely on them for their livelihoods and quality of life. Research focus areas at GMS carve out space for contributions to essential research touching everything from biology to energy to public policy and more.
Focus Areas
At the Gloucester Marine Station, our mission of inspiring active learning through collaborative and integrated research, engagement, and education is being achieved through four focus areas:
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Our History
The Gloucester Marine Station site at Hodgkins Cove has been linked to UMass Amherst since the 1960s, but its history goes back even further than that.