About this site

Oregon Sea Grant has had a presence on the Web almost since the Web was born; our first site went live in 1995, and we've been growing and improving ever since. Today, the site contains more than 2,000 pages of information about ocean and coastal topics.

Our philosophy is simple: The site should serve Sea Grant's mission by making it easy for people to find the information they want about the ocean, ocean science, and about Sea Grant's work, no matter how they access the Web.

We serve multiple audiences:

• Communities of interest: Coastal fishermen, inland watershed owners, people who own or want to own property on the Oregon coast, those who are just visiting and those who've never laid eyes on the Pacific but are curious about the sea.
• Scientists and scholars at Oregon's institutions of higher learning who have - or hope to have - Sea Grant support for peer-reviewed research projects
• Students, from kindergarten through graduate school, who want to learn more about the ocean, or who hope to make their lives studying or managing its resources.
• State, regional and federal policy makers
• Our own faculty and staff, who are scattered the length of Oregon's 363-mile coast and inland as far as Salem and Corvallis

This new design is intended to better serve all those groups. Let us know how we're doing.

Blasts from the past

Here's what we looked like in:

• 1996
• 1998
• 2004

(courtesy of the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine")

Credits:

Code design and implementation, content writing, site development, site management: Pat Kight, Oregon Sea Grant Webmaster

Graphic design: Russell Kaye

Photography, videography: Oregon Sea Grant Communications

Flash implementation: Stevon Roberts

Publication editing and design: Sandy Ridlington, Rick Cooper

Additional content: Cindy Newberry, Julie Howard, Melissa Feldberg, Shawn Rowe

2006 redesign advisory committee:

• Joe Cone, Sea Grant communications director
• Flaxen Conway, Sea Grant Extension faculty
• Russell Kaye, independent design consultant
• Robert Malouf, Sea Grant program director
• Cathy McBride, Sea Grant Extension staff
• Allen Rumbaugh, Sea Grant Advisory Council
• Nick Zlonis, Minnesota Sea Grant (technical consultant)
• ... with additional advice from the Sea Grant management team and program staff

Webhosting and speical technical services provided by Central Web Services, Oregon State University