Sea Grant blogs and podcasts
Rob Emanuel's blog explores water issues on Oregon's North Coast
Oregon Sea Grant blogs and podcasts:
- Breaking Waves - general ocean and coastal news, publications and events from Sea Grant Communications
- H2ONCoast - Rob Emanuel writes about water quality, supply and hazards on Oregon's North Coast
- Words from a Wet Vet - Dr. Tim Miller-Morgan, DVMN, writes about ornamental fish health and husbandry in our newest blog
- Audio p odcast: Communicating Climate Change Social scientists on the challenges of science communication
- Video podcast: Ocean Learning at the Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center
- Sounds from the Southern Ocean - Bill Hanshumaker's 2006 Antarctice research journal (archived)
- NEW: Follow our blog on FaceBook or Twitter
Oregon Sea Grant entered the blogosphere in 2006, when marine educator Bill Hanshumaker chose the blog format to chronicle his experiences on an Antarctic research cruise. Enthusiastic response to the journal led Sea Grant Communications to begin experimenting with blogs as a way of producing timely and engaging content about ocean and coastal matters. A growing number of Extension faculty are embracing blogs as a new medium for their traditional outreach activities.
The word "blog" derives from "Weblog," a more-or-less frequently updated Web site where entries appear in reverse chronologicial order, newest first, and offer news or commentary on one or more subjects.
Blogging offers advantages over more traditional media, such as the newsletter, by making it easy for writers to update on the fly, and for readers to search for past entries by date or topic. For those readers whose e-mail boxes are already overflowing, there are a variety of desktop and Web browser-based tools to provide notification when your favorite blogs are updated. Learn more about subscribing to a blog via a feed-reader.
Our blogs:
The Sea Grant blogs are now part of blogs.oregonstate.edu, a new university-wide blogging community for faculty, departments and students. Please update your bookmarks and feeds!
Breaking Waves
Produced by Sea Grant Communications, Breaking Waves delivers timely and frequently updated news about Sea Grant publications and videos, grant and fellowship opportunities, research outcomes, conferences and other ocean and coastal topics, in a short, easy-to-read format with links to more in-depth information. Entries are archived by date and category, and a search tool makes it easy to find older information.
Words from a Wet Vet
Dr. Tim Miller-Morgan, Oregon Sea Grant's "fish doctor," joins our blogging team with this new entry about all things related to ornamental fish and their health. Intended as a replacement for the irregularly published Ornamental Fish Health Newsletter, the blog provides up-to-the-minute news about the world of fish health, as well as reports from fish health workshops and other events our "wet vet" is participating in.
H2ONCoast: Water, Climate and Community on Oregon's North Coast
The North Coast of Oregon is impressively wet - so wet, in fact, that it can be hard to remember that the region faces surprisingly complex problems related to water quality, supply and the potential hazards of flooding and erosion. Rob Emanuel, Sea Grant Extension's Tillamook-based water resources and community development educator, attempts to bring those issues to light with interesting and engaging discussion of water resource issues facing the region, the nation and the planet.
Sounds from the Southern Ocean
Marine educator Bill Hanshumaker's journal of a NOAA-sponsored research expedition to Antarctica in 2006 was our first foray into blogging, and an opportunity for readers to get on-the-scene reports from our planet's southernmost continent, complete with photographs of the frozen landscape and some of its animal inhabitants. While no longer active, the blog's archives provide a rich example of how blogging can bring science to life, as it happens, even from the farthest corners of the earth.
And podcasts, too!
Communicating Climate Change
A new audio podcast featuring interviews with prominent social scientists on the challenges of communicating complex scientific concepts, such as climate change and variability, to the public. Produced by Oregon Sea Grant's Joe Cone.
Ocean Learning
An audio-visuual introduction to the exhibits and science at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center. Download to your iPod before you visit the HMSC for a personal guided tour!