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PacWave is Oregon State University’s wave energy testing facility, where companies are able to test their prototype devices that create renewable energy from ocean waves.
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Scores of volunteer scientists performed a mass fish necropsy in Newport last month. Events like this help forecast salmon returns, as climate change has upended more traditional methods.
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Older female black, yellowtail, and canary rockfish have been missing from fishery data for decades. The Marine Fisheries Research Project team from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife recently headed out to Cobb Seamount to find them.
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PeaceHealth has announced plans to outsource its information technology services to a provider based in India.
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OSU artist-in-residence Chet Udell will blend marine science, custom instruments, and soundscapes in a free live performance at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport this Thursday.
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Oregon Coast Community College’s Aquarium Science building is undergoing a $2.3 million renovation, so some 150 animals had to be moved to the Hatfield Marine Science Center and Oregon Coast Aquarium.
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The Western Flyer, a fishing boat chartered by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts in 1940 for a research expedition, visited the Pacific Northwest this spring, and is now heading home to California.
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The Trump administration has reversed course on its effort to shut down a network of ocean research stations in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration.
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On this edition we talk with Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian about how one of Oregon's largest employers, Intel, is making a comeback due to the AI revolution that almost caused the company to collapse. Then, we talk with KLCC's Rebecca Hansen-White about a new superintendent for Springfield Schools and a tax to help fund the Lane County Sherriff's office.
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A decision by the Trump administration to quickly dismantle a complex and massive array of underwater equipment that for 10 years has studied the ocean’s health has stunned and dismayed researchers in Newport and Corvallis.
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On this City Club of Eugene, panelists discuss the growing impact of cybersecurity threats on Oregon communities.