Scott Baker, associate director of OSU's Marine Mammal Institute, is one of four scientists named 2011 Pew Marine Fellows. His work was featured prominently in the Academy Award-winning film, "The Cove."
A new study has found that a combination of education and changes in manufacturing processes for certain packing materials could prevent many entanglements of endangered and threatened Steller sea lions.
Seal pups are beginning to appear on Oregon beaches, where coastal visitors often try to "rescue" them, thinking they're stranded. They're not; their mothers are foraging for food.
A coastal imaging system aboard the International Space Station, called HICO, is beaming images of the Earth's coastlines to a laboratory at Oregon State University.
OSU's Scott Heppell and colleagues are working to save the Nassau grouper, a threatened Caribbean reef fish whose large spawning aggregations make them susceptible to overfishing.
OSU's fleet of undersea gliders will soon expand to 21, giving oceanographers an unprecedented opportunity to study the Pacific Ocean off Oregon for clues to climate change, algal blooms and "dead zones."
A team of scientists including OSU's Selina Heppell argue for a new federal research agenda focusing on acquiring baseline data for marine species in the wake of the Gulf oil spill. The forum paper appears in the journal Science.
A team of scientists from OSU, NOAA and Iceland has documented the appearance of endangered right whales in a region east of Greenland where they once thrived, but are thought to be all but extinct.
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