Milford Lab Historical Photo Gallery
Milford Lab Photo Gallery: Approaching a Century of Advancing Aquaculture
In the late 1920s, research began in Milford, Connecticut, to help expand sustainable oyster harvests.
Throughout NOAA Fisheries’ Milford Laboratory's illustrious history, scientists have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of shellfish biology, working closely with the aquaculture industry and academia.
1920s - The original shellfish research station in Milford, Connecticut in 1925 before the lab was officially founded. A...
1930s - Victor Loosanoff and his wife Tamara working at the Milford Lab in the 1930s.
1930s - Milford staff members Victor Loosanoff, James Engle, Joseph Lucash, Marjorie Powell, Mr. Tickey, and Raymond Fle...
1930s - Victor Loosanoff and staff setting up oysters to spawn in glass dishes while a cameraman films.
1930s - Milford Lab staff, 1938. Laboratory director Victor Loosanoff at top left.
1940s - Construction of original Milford Fisheries Laboratory.
1940s - Milford Laboratory collaborated with Remington Arms in 1943 to study seawater and tidal effects on ammunition du...
1940s - As part of the collaborative study between Milford Laboratory and Remington Arms in 1943, scientists placed 45-c...
1940s - Milford Laboratory director Victor Loosanoff and laboratory aid Marilyn Duchene stand behind a fog tank contain...
View of director’s residence (left) and laboratory building (right) in 1940.
1950s - Milford Laboratory Director Victor Loosanoff examines a glass bottle containing algae.
1950s - Victor Loosanoff and a member of the boat crew examine a piece of scientific sampling equipment on the waters o...
Harry Davis spawning oysters in 1952.
Dive operations underway during the 1950s on board the R/V Shang Wheeler.
Milford Laboratory’s original research vessel Shang Wheeler was launched at West Haven Shipyard on March 28, 1951.
Milford Lab shellfish feeding study, 1967.
Sheila Stiles and Al Farren working on an experiment at the outdoor tank farm.
Large glass carboys used to grow algae for feeding to shellfish.
1960s - Clyde Mackenzie examining sea stars in three trays. Each tray holds shellfish and sea stars as part of a predati...
1960s - Al Farren pulling one tray of oysters from a rack. Multiple trays of oysters in the rack are being cultured in ...
Milford Lab divers Clyde MacKenzie, Bill Gnewuch, and Paul Chanley (left to right) on board the R/V Shang Wheeler in the...
Dr. James Hanks and a representative of the construction company looking at plans for the new laboratory building circa...
Dr. James Hanks and a representative of the construction company looking at plans for the new laboratory building circa ...
Sheila Stiles, first African American woman scientist at the Milford Laboratory, and Arlene Longwell conducting genetics...
Contaminant exposure studies were conducted in static and continuous flow seawater systems during the 1970s. Credit: NO...
Rita Riccio, assistant to Victor Loosanoff and technical publications editor for Milford Laboratory, measures temperatur...
Current Milford Laboratory Director Gary Wikfors, shown early in his career, placing algal samples on a freeze dryer.
Algal culture collection at the Milford Laboratory. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Mark Dixon.
Biological laboratory technicians Dee Tucker and Diane Kapareiko (left to right) use a hospital blood analyzer and auto...
Genetics team member Shearon Dudley presents a poster on growth selection response in oysters. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Ge...
Captain Robert Alix at the wheel of Milford Laboratory’s original research vessel Shang Wheeler in the 1980s. Credit: N...
Shellfish biologist Edwin Rhodes holds a lantern net containing bay scallops grown in Long Island Sound. Credit: NOAA Fi...
NOAA diver Ron Goldberg holds a pearl net containing juvenile bay scallops. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Edwin Rhodes
Laboratory technician Renee Mercaldo-Allen feeds postlarval lobsters in an “egg crate” holding system as part of a stud...
Research Microbiologist Gary Wikfors considers edits to a manuscript by Dr. Ukeles. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/George Senne...
Jim Hughes, Dean Perry, and Renee Mercaldo-Allen (left to right) strip-spawning winter flounder in 2005 as part of a 3-y...
Catherine Kuropat weighs winter flounder eggs as part of a study of winter flounder reproductive success in 1995. Credit...
Greenhouse constructed in 1995 to raise large quantities of algae for feeding an adjacent shellfish nursery. Credit: NOA...
Research fishery biologist Jose Pereira used coded wire tags as part of a mark recapture study looking at movements of j...
Milford geneticists used selective breeding to produce hard clams, oysters, and bay scallops with distinctive coloration...
Milford Laboratory staff members John Ziskoski, Richard Robohm, Catherine Kuropat, Fred Thurberg, Tony Calabrese, Renee ...
NOAA divers Joe Choromanski and Ron Goldberg (left to right) surveying the bay scallop population in the Niantic River, ...
Former Coast Guard buoy tender R/V Victor Loosanoff was transferred to the Milford Laboratory in 2001 and converted to a...
Effects of pollution on marine organisms such as skeletal anomalies in winter flounder and other species of flatfish det...
Algal collection curator Jennifer Alix (center) and other staff conducting analyses in the busy flow cytometry laborator...
International collaboration at the Milford Lab with representation from China, Korea, and Pakistan. Credit: NOAA Fisheri...
Sampling hemolymph from quahogs on Cape Cod for a QPX study in collaboration with the Marine Biological Laboratory, MIT ...
French intern Anna LeBorgne learns about spawning oysters and clams from Milford Hatchery Manager David Veilleux. Credit...
Dylan Redman and Ron Goldberg (left to right) prepare the Smith-McIntyre sediment grab sampler for deployment. Credit: N...
Deckhand Werner Schreiner opens a cage containing lobster grow-out “habitats” that were used to headstart lobsters for p...
Milford Lab scientists and collaborators conducting a biodeposition experiment to measure feeding rates of shellfish in...
Microalgal workshop hosted by Milford Laboratory staff in 2017. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/George Sennefelder
Conducting field work during 2017 at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science to investigate the use of natural trophic ...
Yuan Liu, Mark Dixon, and Gillian Phillips (left to right) collect seawater samples for environmental DNA analysis as pa...
Left to right: Lucie-Liane Duchesne, (Polytechnic Institute Lasalle Beauvais France), In Joon Hwang (National Institute ...
Ocean acidification studies to examine effects of elevated CO2 on a variety of fish (black sea bass and scup) and shellf...
Close-up of young oysters grown in chambers as part of a study exposing them to predicted future levels of ocean acidifi...
Gillian Phillips and Dylan Redman (left to right) mounting GoPro action cameras on an oyster cage to study fish interact...
Larval blue mussels reared as part of a genetics selective breeding program led by Dr. Sheila Stiles. Credit: NOAA Fish...
NOAA scientists Shannon Meseck, Gillian Phillips, Melissa Krisak, Emilien Pousse, and Annita Alvarado (left to right) me...
Diane Kaparieko counting oyster larvae as part of her research using probiotic bacteria to enhance survival of shellfish...
Left to right: Mark Dixon, Matt Poach, and Kristin DeRosia-Banick (CT Bureau of Aquaculture) conduct a hard clam survey ...
Two new photobioreactors at the Milford Lab used to grow large quantities of algae to feed shellfish larvae. Credit NOAA...
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