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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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National Science Foundation authorizes Oregon State to lead construction of third research vessel

Apr 17, 2019

Oregon State University has received an additional award of $108.12 million from the National Science Foundation to manage the construction of a third Regional Class Research Vessel to help bolster the nations aging academic research fleet. … Read full story.

Ancient community of undersea microbes may resemble early life on Earth, other planets

Mar 28, 2019

Far beneath the surface of the ocean off the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States and nearly a quarter-mile below the seafloor lives a community of hydrogen-consuming microbes that scientists say are like those in Earths early history. … 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 […]