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Sean Nealon/Oregon State UniversityDavid Handy's Oregon State University laboratory is conducting NASA-funded studies to determine the viability of growing potatoes on the moon. -
Ellie Lafferty/Oregon State UniversityA blue whale skeleton is being assembled at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. The project is the culmination of more than 10 years of effort.
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Shark scientists gathered at Oregon State University's Glady Valley Marine Science Building on the Hatfield campus in Newport to share research about shark species found on the west coast at the Northeast Pacific Shark Symposium. -
On this edition, we talk with Oregon's chief climatologist about how weather is forecast and how that's getting more difficult with climate change. -
The Cascade Subduction Zone affects where the ocean meets the land, and that land is rising in some parts of the Oregon Coast. -
Almost half of a network of cameras run by the University of Oregon to monitor wildfires is at risk of being discontinued, according to an administrator. -
The Eugene Water & Electric Board has reached a major milestone in its College Hill water tank project, with two new seismically resilient reservoirs ahead of schedule. -
Some environmental activists are pushing back after the Eugene Water & Electric Board partnered with the University of Oregon to test the school’s gas-powered back-up generator. -
Scientists know a surprising amount of information about Southern Resident Killer Whales, but once the whales leave their home waters of Puget Sound, their whereabouts become a little more murky, especially off the Oregon coast. -
On this edition we talk with Ellen Dymit, an OSU researcher on a new study which explains how cats in the rainforest avoid each and competition for food. Plus, we talk with Esther Tishman of Liberty Walks who has completed her walk across America to promote civility. -
Oregon is the Christmas tree capital of the country, producing over 3 million of the festive evergreens every year. And when Christmas tree growers have a concern with their crops of noble or Douglas firs, they call Oregon State University’s Priya Rajarapu. She’s the state’s Christmas tree specialist. -
A recent Oregon State University study found that the primary cyanotoxin in Detroit Lake suddenly changed in 2018, and the bacteria strain that’s currently dominant lives longer, so harmful blooms may contaminate Detroit Lake for more days, each year.
