The National Science Foundation has awarded $2.6 milliion to Oregon Sea Grant to create a free-choice learning lab at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center.
Carbon dioxide rose rapidly in the atmosphere at the end of the last Ice Age and scientists have long thought the source of that increase was the deep ocean. A new study suggests otherwise.
Scientists who had forecast the eruption of Axial Seamount in a 2006 paper returned to the undersea volcano this summer and discovered that it had indeed erupted.
Scientists at OSU are leading an international effort to employ the use of beach cameras and surf cameras to collection data on the near-shore for information on beach formation, erosion, rip currents and other issues.
A rich methane field is located at Hydrate Ridge, about 55 miles off the Oregon coast, and scientists are intrigued by its potential as an energy source - and concerned about potential effects of climate change.
OSU oceanographers will turn the ocean green this week, using a temporary, harmless dye to track near-shore ocean water movement off the coast of Newport.
Scientists from OSU and Germany have confirmed why the Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific - it's a combination of large mountain ranges, tropical tradewinds and the Antarctic ice sheet.
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