Oregon is warming, and snow is waning. The clear, clean water that supplies many of Oregon’s cities and farms originates high in the Cascades. Stored on snowy peaks, the water feeds rivers and aquifers that supply some of the state’s most populous regions.
When a submersible dove into deep waters off Florida not long ago, the scientists aboard saw an alarming sight: big lionfish, lots of them.
Portland ninth-grader Meghana Rao was scouring the Web for information on biochar when she stumbled across an intriguing paper by a researcher named Markus Kleber. When she realized he was at Oregon State University, just 90 miles down the freeway from where she was a student at Jesuit High School, she emailed him with “a few ideas.”
An International Studies biology student delves into a health risk in rural Ecuador: lead contamination in local pottery.
Here are the stories of five Oregon State University student researchers who are giving everything they’ve got to heal a planet in peril.
“I want to do research on reefs that will lead to the creation of a lot more marine protected areas.”