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Check out our new Marine Studies Building Webcam... Contruction on the new building at HMSC begins March 15th, 2017!

OSU Marine Studies Initiative FAQs , video , website, and strategic plan .

Hatfield Marine Science Center—Fifty Years of Discovery and more on HMSC history.

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State of the Coast conference set for Oct. 27 in Coos Bay

Oct 10, 2018

Registration has opened for Oregon Sea Grant's annual State of the Coast conference, which will be held Oct. 27 in Coos Bay. … Read full story.

Land-locked Atlantic salmon use GPS-like magnetic field to navigate and may not lose that ability

Oct 8, 2018

A new study shows that Atlantic salmon use the Earths magnetic field as a navigational tool much like their cousins, Pacific salmon and dont lose that ability through several generations of fish even after they have been transplanted into a land-locked lake … Read full story.

HMSC Currents

Cowen-Sponaugle NFS project launches with winter cruise aboard Sikuliaq: Project Summary

Feb 15, 2018

Meso-zooplankton food-webs in intermittent upwelling systems: An overlooked link in a productive ocean. Eastern boundary currents are among the most productive marine ecosystems on the planet and support a significant proportion of global fisheries, yet there are unanswered questions about the role of non-crustacean zooplankton in transferring production through upwelling food webs. Organic material in […]

OSU inks largest research grant in its history to begin ship construction

Jul 17, 2017

CORVALLIS, Ore. Oregon State University has just received a grant of $121.88 million from the National Science Foundation to spearhead the construction of a new class of research vessels for the United States Academic Research Fleet. It is the largest grant in the universitys history. This grant will fund the construction of the first […]