The OSU College of Agricultural Sciences is working with recent U.S. veterinary school graduates on the study of human diseases and birth defects using fish models.
OSU scientists will begin testing a low-power acoustic device to see if it will be effective in preventing migrating gray whales from entering areas that soon may have wave energy platforms and cables.
An OSU-led team used a capture cage to temporarily contain a sea lion injured by a plastic packing band in an experimental project at Newport to address local entanglement of marine mammals.
For the first time in the nearly 80-year history of the popular Oregon attraction, a sea lion trapped in coastal rocks is rescued from near certain death, thanks to OSU rescuers.
John Delaney, a prominent University of Washington oceanographer, will give the first lecture in a new series at OSU commemorating the discovery of undersea hydrothermal vents.
OSU researchers monitoring juvenile steelhead have discovered that nearly half of the dollar-sized fish died when they reached the estuary - most likely by predation - before ever reaching the ocean.
New funding for Sea Grant will support 10 research projects, nine of them centered at Oregon State, in such areas as climate change, marine reserves and salmon habitat restoration.