Leigh Torres holds a drone

Researcher uses drones to learn how whales respond to noise pollution

Drones, microphones, photos and fecal samples determine if noise is stressing out whales
Chris Langdon, an aquaculture researcher at Oregon State University

Researchers aim to improve nutritional value of food for hatchery fish

With funding from Sea Grant, researchers will fill liposomes with nutrients
shorecrab (Hemigrapsus oregonensis)

Study: Prozac in ocean water a possible threat to sea life

Crabs showed less concern for predators and fought more with their own species
Student Kaegan Scully-Engelmeyer explains his research while standing in front of a poster

Oregon Sea Grant awards $1.1 mln to researchers at OSU, UO and PSU

Research will include studying the effects of ocean acidification on Oregon pink shrimp and Dungeness crabs
plastics on beach

Oregon Sea Grant-funded researchers study drugs and plastics in water and shellfish

One researcher concluded that each day, 62 to 65 kilograms of an anti-diabetic drug reach the Pacific Ocean from the Columbia River
juvenile salmon

Study: Young salmon use Earth's magnetic field to emerge from gravel nests

Researchers ran a very low electric current through copper coils to control the magnetic field around the fish
raw oyster on the half shell with lemon and fork

OSU gets 2 NOAA aquaculture grants to help oyster industry and marine fish hatcheries

Grants aim to reduce bacteria in oysters via probiotics and increase nutrition of live fish food
razor clams

Researchers look for microplastics in razor clams and oysters

Microplastics can attract chemicals, which might harm the organisms that eat them
2017 Summer Scholar Katie Gregory working in the field on the coast

Summer interns grow professionally

Supported by Oregon Sea Grant, interns were paired with mentors at state and federal agencies for 10 weeks.
Jenny East

Oregon Sea Grant tells boaters where to go when they have to go

Jenny East tells boaters where they can find floating restrooms, pump out their holding tanks or flush away the contents of their portable toilets.
Gooseneck barnacles grow on top of thatched barnacles.

UO study moves seafood industry closer to farming gooseneck barnacles

Juvenile gooseneck barnacles in a lab grew at rates comparable to those of their counterparts in the wild
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley recognizes Sea Grant Shop at the Dock program at a town hall meeting in Newport.

U.S. Sen. Merkley Recognizes Sea Grant's Shop at the Dock Program

"Thank you, Oregon Sea Grant! The Sea Grant program is a textbook example of a smart and targeted investment in local communities that helps create economic growth," U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley.

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