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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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OSU, consortium get NSF grant to continue Ocean Observatories Initiative

Sep 19, 2018

The National Science Foundation announced that it has awarded a coalition of academic and oceanographic research organizations a five-year contract to operate and maintain the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). … Read full story.

Seafood/fishing industry alerted scientists to acidification, hypoxia issues off Oregon

Sep 14, 2018

The first biannual report to the Oregon Legislature from the Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Coordinating Council concludes that the state needs more monitoring, public awareness and policy direction regarding these emerging ocean conditions. … 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 […]