Photo: OSU polo player Brooke Glascock mid-swing during a game in California. Photo courtesy Liz Graham.
A few weeks ago, you may have noticed a miniature horse standing in the SEC Plaza, munching on a pile of alfalfa and helping draw attention to a student fundraiser.
Photo: During one of Torres' previous trips, a blue whale showed its fluke in the South Taranaki Bight.
Leigh Torres is an associate professor and marine ecologist in OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, Ore., where she leads the Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna (GEMM) Lab. Her work has taken her all over the world as she studies the behavior and environment of marine animals including blue whales. She recently returned from a research trip off the coast of New Zealand.
Scott Heppell (foreground) with a stereo video camera rig while Brice Semmens (background) takes pictures for facial recognition of Nassau grouper.
Scott Heppell is a professor in OSU’s Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences within the College of Agricultural Sciences, where his research focuses on marine and freshwater fish ecology. He’s worked with fish all over the world and is currently on his annual trip to Little Cayman for an ongoing conservation project for the Nassau grouper.
Meet Trygve, a young Norwegian Fjord horse owned by Alexandria Harris and her family. This video chronicles Trygve’s fight against equine protozoal myeloencephalitis at the Oregon State University Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital. "He means a lot to me and my family. He's a very sweet horse," said Harris.
Warning: This video contains surgical imagery.
Maximus is a four-year-old German shepherd in need of a pacemaker to fix his slow heart rate. The surgery is performed by Dr. Charlotte Donnan and team at the Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital at the Oregon State University Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine.
Kate Stafford on the ice in Alaska, holding a hydrophone to record underwater sound.
Kate Stafford is an associate professor and principal investigator of the Marine Mammal Bioacoustics and Ecology Lab, part of the Marine Mammal Institute at Hatfield Marine Science Center. Her research focuses on the use of passive acoustic monitoring in the ocean to study marine mammals, at the intersection of animal behavior and biological and physical oceanography. She spends part of each year in the northernmost tip of Alaska.
Taylor Hersh taking a photo while doing field work on an unrelated project near Dominica. Photo by Ellen Jacobs.
Oregon State University researcher Taylor Hersh has been named one of five women in science awardees by L’Oreal USA for 2024, a recognition that also comes with a $60,000 grant to pursue further research and public engagement.
Mauricio Cantor, center, with a large group of students and researchers at the University of Kerala.
Mauricio Cantor is an assistant professor in the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. He is a behavioral ecologist who studies mutually beneficial interactions between human fishers and dolphins in southern Brazil and is now expanding that research to India.
