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Healthy People homestories Inquiry

The Language of the Sublime

The panoramic Colorado landscape — the thunder and lightning, the mountains jutting shardlike to the sky, the palpable wildness — helped form Henry Sayre’s aesthetic sensibility.

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Earth Healthy Planet

The Mystery of the Disappearing Birds

Once upon a time Barro Colorado Island was a mountaintop, rising from the trackless rainforest that carpeted the Isthmus of Panama. Its deep-green slopes hosted pumas and jaguars and more than 200 species of birds.

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Terra+ Fall 2014

Citizen scientists join university researchers to study Oregon’s marine reserves.

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Terra+ Fall 2015

A marine mammal researcher documents an ecosystem that is as fragile and beautiful as it is harsh and unforgiving.

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Marine Studies Initiative

In the Eye of Antarctica

Ari Friedlaender, an associate professor in the Bio-Telemetry and Behavioral Ecology Lab of OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute, investigates how whales and seals feed, swim, dive, socialize, mate and migrate — what he calls their “behavioral ecology.”

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Terra+ Spring 2015

Stunning images of rare zooplankton garner worldwide citizen input.