Oregon Sea Grant

NOAA's Sea Grant program provides $725,000 in funding

Flat, mesh panels – a new technique – will be used to farm the seaweed

With funding from Oregon Sea Grant, students are learning to collect plankton and sediment, track whales and detect green sturgeons

Portland’s Widmer Brothers Brewing has won a national award for pollution prevention, thanks in part to an intern who was an engineering student at Oregon State University.

Project aims to see if different forestry regulations result in different amounts and types of chemicals in oysters and clams

With Oregon Sea Grant funding, researchers conduct focus groups to gauge attitudes about exploiting and protecting Oregon's deep ocean floor

In Newport, about 70 people participated in 6 mock tsunami evacuations

Contractors replaced rusting metal stands then sculpted concrete rock around them

Drones, microphones, photos and fecal samples determine if noise is stressing out whales

With funding from Sea Grant, researchers will fill liposomes with nutrients

Crabs showed less concern for predators and fought more with their own species

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