Mark Abbott, dean of OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, has been named 2011 winner of the Jim Gray eScience Award, presented by Microsoft Research.
A new species of crab has been found and described by an Oregon State University post-doc, who says it "farms" methane seeps for nutrients to feed the bacteria on its claws - to feed itself.
A new study published in the journal Science suggests that the global warming resulting from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be less Draconian than some of the more dire predictions.
Debris from the Japanese tsunami in March of 2011 is slowly making its way toward the West Coast, but some of it appears to be peeling off and heading for the Garbage Patch further south.
OSU and its institutional partners are set to begin deploying ocean-observing platforms and a fleet of undersea gliders in 2012 as part of a $386 million project called the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
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