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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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Study: Earths polar regions communicate via oceanic postcards, atmospheric text messages

Nov 28, 2018

Scientists have documented a two-part climatic connection between the North Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica, a fast atmospheric channel and a much slower oceanic one, that caused rapid changes in climate during the last ice age and may again. … Read full story.

New federal report: Northwest climate could see more years like 2015

Nov 26, 2018

A new federal report on the impacts of climate change release on Friday that includes a chapter focusing on the Pacific Northwest warns that more years like 2015 may lie ahead for the region and they may be even worse. … Read full story.

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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 […]