Hatfield Marine Science Center

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.

A crowd of more than 250 people packed the Hatfield Marine Science Center’s auditorium for late Lincoln County Commissioner Claire Hall’s memorial on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026.

Get ready to learn about everything from humpback whales to razor clams, because the Big Blue Film Festival is returning to Newport for its fourth year.

A research summit in Newport has been postponed because of the federal government shutdown.

The university is living up to its promise as OSU and Oregon Coast Community College students and university staff begin moving into the 34,000-square-foot 77-unit building.

Among the White House’s latest potential cuts to federal spending is the elimination of the scientific research unit for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. If enacted, those could have a major impact on a coastal Oregon city.

The central Oregon coast is infused with federal money, has branches of many federal agencies and is home to its hundreds of its employees.

Daniel Roeser admits there may have been a time or two this summer when his work helping assemble a five-foot-long autonomous miniboat felt a bit like drudgery.

When Oregon State University asked years ago to expand its Hatfield Marine Science Center it made a commitment to develop housing for some of the students, faculty and researchers drawn to the new facility. On Monday, it officially broke ground on a $16.5 million, 77-unit apartment project to do just that.

There’s a new resident Giant Pacific Octopus at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. The cephalopod is there thanks to a local crab boat.

When completed, the 5,000-pound finished product will be one of only six complete blue whale skeletons on display in the United States and one of maybe two dozen anywhere in the world.

Oregon State University’s marine researchers want an octopus. They’re asking local fishermen to let them know if they happen to find one.