Oregon State Board of Trustees approves budget, construction of research complex

The Oregon State University Board of Trustees on Friday approved a $1.64 billion budget to support university operations for the 2023-24 fiscal year and advanced to the construction phase a research complex in Corvallis and a housing project in Newport to serve the university’s Hatfield Marine Science Center.

Ship launch marks key milestone in OSU-led construction of new U.S. oceanographic research vessels

The first of three new oceanographic research vessels dedicated to advancing marine science along U.S. coasts was successfully launched Thursday.

Oregon State researchers to study climate fluctuations in the ocean along Washington’s Olympic Coast

A team of Oregon State University researchers is leading a three-year effort to learn more about climate fluctuations in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary using more than 20 years of oceanographic data.

A jumping conclusion: Fossil insect ID’d as new genus, species of prodigious leaper, the froghopper

A fossil arthropod entombed in 100-million-year-old Burmese amber has been identified as a new genus and species of froghopper, known today as an insect with prodigious leaping ability in adulthood following a nymphal stage spent covered in a frothy fluid.

Massive iceberg discharges during the last ice age had no impact on nearby Greenland, raising new questions about climate dynamics

Greenland, in close proximity to the ice sheet, saw no changes during Heinrich events during the last ice age, while the events caused rapid warming in Antarctica, at the other end of the globe.

Bees flock to clearcut areas but numbers decline as forest canopy regrows, OSU research shows

Native bees in the Oregon Coast Range are diverse and abundant in clearcut areas within a few years of timber harvest but their numbers drop sharply as planted trees grow and the forest canopy closes, research by Oregon State University shows.

With fewer salmon to eat, Southern Resident killer whales spend less time in the San Juan Islands

As a key food supply declines, the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales, known to frequent the Salish Sea off the coasts of Washington and British Columbia, is spending far less time in that region, a new study shows.

Researchers develop electrolyte enabling high efficiency of safe, sustainable zinc batteries

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists led by an Oregon State University researcher have developed a new electrolyte that raises the efficiency of the zinc metal anode in zinc batteries to nearly 100%, a breakthrough on the way to an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale energy storage.

To help Oregon’s dry forests, fire needs to be just the right intensity, and happen more than once

Oregon State University research into the ability of a wildfire to improve the health of a forest uncovered a Goldilocks effect – unless a blaze falls in a narrow severity range, neither too hot nor too cold, it isn’t very good at helping forest landscapes return to their historical, more fire-tolerant conditions.

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