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Living with Fire

Illustration by Heather Miller

New Oregon State research center focuses on fire-prone landscapes

Tags College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Forestry, Fire

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A Sense for Starch

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date February 11, 2017

Terra story about taste research with faculty, Juyun Lim, and graduate students Alexa Pullicin and Julie Colvin. Food Science and Technology, Center for Sensory and Consumer Research, College of Agrcultural Sciences

Food scientists discover potential new taste

Tags Food Science and Technology, sensory, starch, taste

Healthy Planet homestories Stewardship

What Do We Love Too Much to Lose?

Post author By hogueth
Post date February 10, 2017

(Photo: Kirsten Mathieson)

“A Call to Life” gathers international momentum

Tags environment, extinction, Music, Sustainability

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Small Beauties

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date February 8, 2017

Living Images Yeastogram, by Johanna Rotko of Kotka, Finland.

The art and science of the microbiome

Tags art, Fish, Klamath, Microbiology, pathogen

Healthy Planet homestories Student Research

Meadowlands

Across parts of the West, green meadows have given way to eroding banks like this creek near Izee in Eastern Oregon. The white layer is ash from the eruption of Mount Mazama, which led to the creation of Crater Lake more than 7,000 years ago. (Photo: Gordon Grant)

Can beavers restore this eroded stream channel?

Tags CEOAS, rangeland ecology, water resources

homestories Marine Studies Initiative

The Heroic Reef

The corals of Varadero have endured five hundred years of human conflict, but they may not survive Colombia’s fragile peace.

Tags Cartagena, Climate Change, Colombia, coral bleaching, coral reefs