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Healthy Planet Student Research

Reserve for Rockfish

In his research on marine reserves, a graduate student taps his experience with both fish and humans.

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Innovation

Tools of the Trade

Scientists, farmers and plant breeders who feed the world have a new scientific resource at their disposal to help them cut through the DNA clutter.

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Marine Studies Initiative

Global Ocean

With one of the largest concentrations of marine scientists in the nation, OSU’s ocean research has gone global.

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Earth

Living on the Fault

In one of the Earth’s most active fault zones, OSU geoscientist John Nabelek and colleagues are defining the forces that created Mt. Everest and threaten millions of people.

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Healthy Planet

Gene Stalker

Scott Baker, an Oregon State University conservation geneticist and cetacean specialist whose work was featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary, “The Cove,” has been named one of four 2011 Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation.

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Secret Slaughter

In the seaside village of Taiji, Japan, there’s a jarring juxtaposition: Jolly-looking tour buses shaped like happy dolphins putter up and down the streets by day, while by night fishermen secretly slaughter hundreds of panic-stricken dolphins in a nearby inlet and sell them as meat.