OSU researchers map the deep underbelly of the USA (KLCC)
Researchers at Oregon State University are celebrating the completion of an epic mapping project. For the first time, there is a 3-D map of the Earth’s crust and mantle beneath the entire United States. The map could help the utility industry protect the power grid and prevent wide-scale blackouts.
Paint it black? OSU scientists study impact of painting wind turbine blade black, to curb bird collisions (KTVZ)
Oregon State University researchers are part of a team looking at reducing bird collision risks with wind turbines by painting a single blade of the turbine black. (see also OPB, Capital Chronicle)
High desert poet Ellen Waterston chosen as Oregon Poet Laureate (OPB News)
She began her own Writing Ranch in 2000 in Central Oregon to support and nurture writers, and she was instrumental in the genesis of the low residency MFA program at Oregon State University, Cascades, where she now also teaches.
On the trail of the coastal marten (Jefferson Public Radio)
The scat they collect on these surveys will be sent to Dr. Taal Levi’s lab at Oregon State University. This summer, they plan to start using scat to show how the martens are related to each other genetically—something that’s never been done before.