Scientists have long used satellite tags to track endangered blue whales along the West Coast...
In the last 20 years, one of the country's most valuable natural resources has transformed from a national disaster to a great American recovery story.
Incentives that are designed to enable smarter use of the ocean while also protecting marine ecosystems can and do work...
A splitnose rockfish's thousands of tiny offspring can stick together in sibling groups from the time they are released into the open ocean until they move to shallower water, research shows.
Brian Sidlauskas unscrews the lid of a clear plastic container about the size of a pickle jar, then uses a pair of giant tweezers to extract his prize: a dead fish.
It is a milestone for ocean conservation and Russia’s relationship with the rest of the world.
Understanding population dynamics is crucial for the conservation of species like albatrosses, but collecting data on albatrosses before they reach adulthood and begin to breed is challenging.
Larger, more frequent wildfires across the Great Basin have contributed significantly to a decline in greater sage-grouse...
Christina Murphy, Ph.D. student in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Researchers for the first time have documented the killing of millions of animals in Brazil's Amazon Basin for their hides following the collapse of the Rubber Boom in the 20th century...
Oregon wildlife officials are beginning required reviews of the way they manage wolves and cougars, while researchers are continuing to study how the two predators interact.
Marine ecologist Leigh Torres has been heading up the pilot project.
A teacher and several students from Lincoln County recently took part in a research cruise about Oregon State University’s research vessel, Oceanus.
It is a controversial decision administrators made with the use of state funding, and a decision that went against the advice of local leaders, geologists and OSU professors.
Oregon State University professor Bruce Mate on one of three ex-trawl fishing boats OSU is converting to use as whale research and oceanography vessels.
For the past several years, technicians have been trucking spring Chinook salmon above Foster Dam in Sweet Home to see if they would spawn...
The death of a humpback whale in New Jersey, which has been officially linked to human activity, has renewed concern about whale conservation
A garden is like a box of bonbons to deer, and homeowners fill it with the candy they love most.
A look at our departmental happenings over the last year!
Michelle's dissertation work has been made into a short movie or two!
“I wouldn’t be surprised if they aren’t prospecting for new locations,” says Dan Roby, a professor of wildlife ecology at Oregon State University who studies pelicans and other birds.
OSU President Edward J. Ray announced Aug. 3 that a new $50 million center for global marine studies research and education will be built at OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport
Ari Friedlander, a whale specialist from Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute, says sea turtles are not a common prey for orcas.
Newport-based Kaety Jacobson, a Sea Grant fisheries specialist with the Oregon State University Extension Service, said if you’re even thinking about buying that day, you are urged to not only bring c
A new university study finds the natural resources sector in the Northwest fuels more than $176 billion in direct and related sales and accounts for nearly 886,000 full and part-time jobs
Florida's coral reefs are already in big trouble. Scientists around the globe have noted serious problems for the delicate but vital ecosystems...
Olympia oysters: small, slow to mature, their unique qualities appreciated by a loyal few (who affectionately call them "olys").
New research reveals that every sperm whale in the world descended from a single female.
Researchers admit that wild mustelids can be maddening to study. Most species are secretive loners, shrug off standard radio collars with ease, and run close to the ground...
Questions provided by Professor Grant Thompson
If you think your commute to work, school or college is tough, spare a thought for the Arctic tern. (and more)
Coral reefs are declining around the world because a combination of factors...
Swirling eddies in the ocean have long been thought to be beneficial to organisms such as larval fishes residing within them because of enhanced phytoplankton production.
In the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sri Lanka, pygmy blue whales are changing their tune — and they might be doing it on purpose.
Dr. Ari Friedlaender interviews.
A new mural has emerged at Hatfield Marine Science Center, featuring a life-size, three-dimensional walrus head and other marine mammals at Oregon Sea Grant’s Visitor Center in Newport.
Officials say thousands of cormorants abandoned their nests on East Sand Island in the Columbia River and they don’t know why. Reports indicate as many as 16,000 adult birds in the colony left...
“Today is a marvelous day,” said Carl Schreck, professor of Fisheries at Oregon State University. “We’re recognizing forever that these animals are an important part of our environmental ecosystem."
Dr. Joe Ebersole meets up with Brianna to talk about her achievements
The Oregon coast currently has a thriving community of juvenile starfish (or sea stars), with some places seeing populations with as many as 300 times the typical number, researchers said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is undertaking a three-month investigation of one of the most mysterious places on Earth: the Mariana Trench.
...a new study has found a remarkable lack of diversity in the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA within the species.
Dr. Brian Sidlauskas interviews Ameyalli
NEWPORT, Ore. - Sperm whales lack a diversity of DNA inherited with their mothers, with 1,000 samples examined over the past 15 years sharing DNA from the same whale, researchers said...
The river that was fabled for its millions of salmon each season saw significant decreases following dam construction.
Many open ocean fish—big fish that are fundamental to the food supply of many, many nations—[have] larvae that hang out on coral reefs. Once that habitat is gone, those fish are not going to make it.
An NOAA vessel is surveying the area surrounding the Mariana Trench
has so far spotted an unknown jellyfish and amoeba living in the deep.
Fifteen years ago, America’s vast $50 million Pacific groundfish fishery, which stretches some 1,200 miles from Southern California to the Canadian border, collapsed.
Bottlenose dolphins have been observed chattering while cooperating to solve a tricky puzzle – a feat that suggests they have a type of vocalisation dedicated to cooperating on problem solving.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife invites applicants for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, fixed-term Instructor/Curator position. Reappointment at the discretion of the Department Head.
Researchers who study fish put a high value on biodiversity in the field, yet a new study found a surprising lack of diversity among fisheries scientists themselves.
The survey, in collaboration with the Department of Conservation, was led by marine mammal expert professor Leigh Torres of Oregon State University.
The Whale Trail‘s Donna Sandstrom says Bruce Mate is “one of the world’s great whale researchers” – and is excited that he’s booked for the spring Orca Talk, 7 pm April 21st at The Hall @ Fauntleroy.
Results of the research, which was conducted in northern California, have just been published in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
Professor Chris Langdon came to OSU in 1986 from the University of Delaware to work on oysters. Seaweed had not been part of his research until he started examining it as feed for abalone about 20 yrs
Check out their trip! Photos included.
Oregon State University marine scientists are eager to show you all the ways they’ve devised of looking into the briny deep.
Theresa Kirchner tells us about taking a class in Antarctica!
Natalie Mastick recounts her adventures in Antarctica - all while earning school credit.
Oregon’s water is tested for suspended solids, certain chemicals, heavy metals, but not for pharmaceuticals.
How to prioritize restoration actions and develop effectiveness monitoring programs - Registration ends April 25th!
Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:00pm in Nash 206
The most recent discoveries of debris that could belong to the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 aircraft do not appear to have been in the ocean for very long.
The population of southern right whales in the waters off New Zealand is just 12 per cent of its size before whaling began, according to a new study.
Bruce Mate, director of OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute, and his wife Mary Lou are pledging a new fellowship endowment to support graduate students at the institute.
Debris covered in Japanese writing started washing up on Oregon shores. There were coolers and tubs and canisters and boats. Perhaps most famously, a massive dock - 165 ton chunk of concrete and steel
Humans have long depended on the sea as a source of food and a means of travel. But the world's oceans offer another essential resource: energy. And Scotland's Orkney Islands boast optimal conditions
Striking purple-blue sea creatures, Velella velella, have washed up by the thousands on on Seaside beach and other stretches of the north Oregon coast in recent days, tourism officials said Monday.
Fishing buoys, fuel drums and even a derelict squid boat were among the tons of debris that floated into Alaska waters after Japan’s 2011 devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Beth Orning walks along the rim of a steep ravine, the brittle, rime-crusted grasses crunching under her boots. A chill mist shrouds the surrounding hills...
When debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeast Japan first wended its over through the Pacific Ocean’s currents, concerns about potential radioactive contaminants...
The Antarctic Peninsula region is explored during the voyage and the region is the focus of a long-term whale tagging research project that was initiated by Dr. Ari Friedlaender
“For the first time in 70 years, the park has a complete suite of predators and prey,” [said] Oregon State University forest ecologist William Ripple
In waters off the West Antarctic Peninsula, Ari Friedlaender, an ecologist with Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute, found that humpback whales fed exclusively at night...
A recent study by the National Park Service offers good news for one of the species that has become a measure of the threat to biodiversity posed by global warming.
National Geographic Explorer and marine ecologist Leigh Torres made the likely discovery of nursing while on a research cruise in the South Taranaki Bight off the western coast of New Zealand.
"Yeah, once you're a birder, you can never turn it off. You're always looking for birds wherever you are — even when you're driving, which is kind of hazardous," said birder Noah Strycker.
The Ogooué River Reveals a new species of fish that uses electric pulses for navigation and communication.
The American pika could face local extinction in some national parks due to climate change, a new report says.
Two years ago, Dr. Leigh Torres (OSU) documented 50 blue whales in the South Taranaki Bight, some of New Zealand’s busiest and most industrialized waters.
The American pika may actually fare well in warmer temperatures brought on by climate change, according to a new study from Oregon State University.
A team of international researchers funded by National Geographic are studying the pygmy blue whale foraging ground 40km north of Farewell Spit.
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