Sea Grant Story Archive

OSU researchers aim to scale up production of nutritious red seaweeds

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

Students learn how to conduct research aboard OSU ship

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

Former OSU student helps Portland brewery win pollution prevention award

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.

Researchers to examine shellfish for chemicals sprayed in forests upstream

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

How much do Oregonians value their deep sea?

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

Researchers use simulations to help towns plan for tsunami

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

Aquarium tanks at marine education center get facelift

Contractors replaced rusting metal stands then sculpted concrete rock around them

Researcher uses drones to learn how whales respond to noise pollution

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

Researchers aim to improve nutritional value of food for hatchery fish

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

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

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

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

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