In an earthquake, Tom Miller knows which buildings to avoid.
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Seismic Safety
Author: Nick Houtman
Nick Houtman is director of research communications at OSU and edits Terra, a world of research and creativity at Oregon State University. He has experience in weekly and daily print journalism and university science writing. A native Californian, he lived in Wisconsin and Maine before arriving in Corvallis in 2005.
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Talking About Water
Lest we forget that environmental and human health are intimately connected, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill delivered that message in spades.
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DIRT Camp
Scott Sell earned a paycheck on the way to his degree.
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Broken Beams
How and when things break yields information that manufacturers use to build better structures. So it’s no surprise that the companies that make the things we live in, ride over and depend on support research that tells them just how far their products will take us.
nother piece of conventional wisdom about severe forest fires appears to be falling.
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Surprise!
Scott Baker had no idea that when he agreed to participate in the making of a documentary about a dolphin slaughter in Japan, that the movie would win an Academy Award.