July 11th, 2017
Surveying seafloor animals for offshore renewable energy
Marine biologist Sarah Henkel’s survey of sea floor animals is helping the development of offshore renewable energy facilities on the west coast.
Biologist Virginia Weis is one of eight researchers selected for a new $14 million NSF program for enabling discovery through genomic tools.
Marine biologist Jane Lubchenco and an international team of scientists have found that marine reserves can help protect the planet from global warming.
A three-year survey of the California Current System found persistent, highly acidified water throughout this ecologically critical nearshore habitat.
Dr. Harry W. Greene, an ecologist at Cornell University, will present the second annual Robert M. Storm Distinguished Lecture May 31, 2017.
A new study by Oregon State microbiologists reveals how deep-water bacteria’s genomes break down carbon molecules
In the Galapagos Islands, scientists from Oregon State University and Brown University examined the relationships among predatory fishes, urchins, algae, sea lions and sharks.
Some of the most interesting lives don’t move forward in a straight line as mathematician Juan M. Restrepo can attest to: He planned on […]
Materials scientists at Oregon State are working on new energy and environmental applications that will contribute to a healthy planet.
Three Ph.D. students in integrative biology and microbiology receive prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program fellowships for 2017.
Microbiologist Rebecca Vega Thurber has pioneered research aimed at protecting marine biodiversity with a special focus on highly endangered coral reefs.
The need for long-term research—which is highly valued by environmental scientists and policymakers—far outstrips the amount of funding awarded for it, according to a recent […]
Since the mid-1990s, biochemistry professor Ryan Mehl has been working to find the perfect chemical reaction for attaching proteins to just about anything. And now […]
A new way of looking at how pollutants travel has quadrupled the estimate of global lung cancer risk from a pollutant caused by combustion.
Microbiologist Andrew Thurber has co-authored a study which warns the deep ocean floor may face starvation and sweeping ecological change by the year 2100.
Chemists develop new type battery with promise for sustainable, high-power energy storage.