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Healthy Planet Marine Studies Initiative

Raising Coral

A variety of coral species is under study in the Meyer lab at Oregon State University.

Breeding corals could lead to more resilient reefs

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The Water Year’s Long, Cold, and Wet Goodbye Kiss to the Drought

Applegate Reservoir 2012 (Photo: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife)

This water year, the normally drier months of October, February, March, and April were wetter than normal—much wetter—across the entire Pacific Northwest. Idaho just recorded its wettest April in history.

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Waiting for Starlight

Powerful jets of high-speed material are pictured in blue in this computer simulation of an exploding star that harbors a gamma-ray burst. Davide Lazzati uses three-dimensional computer simulations to shed light on the dynamics of these energetic outflows, which stream out of their progenitor star (in red and orange). The jets eventually escape from the dense and cold stellar material and convert their energy into gamma-ray radiation that can be detected with telescopes. (From Lopez-Camara, Lazzati, Morsony, & Bergelman 2013)

Davide Lazzati tries to make sense of violent bursts that shine from the far reaches of the universe

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Sustainable Cemeteries

The ultimate back-to-the-land movement

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Healthy Planet homestories

Space Science and the Solar Eclipse

A composition of 29 eclipse images taken between 2nd contact 10:10:40 UT, 3rd contact 10:13:08 UT. The solar corona can only be observed during a solar eclipse. (Photo: Miroslav Druckmüller)

OSU150 celebration opens with Oregon Space Grant Festival

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Healthy Planet homestories

Emissary from an Ice-Age Boneyard

Illustration by Santiago Uceda

When mammoths, giant beavers and their kin roamed the Willamette Valley