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Sikuliaq 2016: The Dynamic Arctic

In September, two teams are doing separate but related scientific work in the Arctic Ocean aboard the research vessel (R/V) Sikuliaq. The following is an overview of their proposed research and what they expect to find.

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Solar Eclipse 2017

Did you know that the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse will pass directly over Corvallis?

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Grand Strategy, Global Purpose

The United States has never been more connected to the global community than it is today.

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Book Notes

Oregon State University Press offers an enticing range of books that tell stories of the oceans and the organisms (humans included) that depend on their depths, their shallows and their shores. 

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Notes from a Forest

In environmental science, the H.J. Andrews Forest is a place of beginnings. It’s here that researchers monitor the heartbeat of aging trees, leading to new understanding for the term “old growth.” It’s where studies of an obscure owl shape forest policy, trickling streams become windows on abrupt and sudden events and scientists prod, poke and measure trees like doctors in the emergency room.

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Terra + Spring 2016

Mother Whales Meet Seafloor Drilling Pygmy blues face industrial hazards in a New Zealand gulf In New Zealand there shines a gulf the color of indigo where whales live. Geographically, it glistens at the nexus of two islands and two seas. Politically, it sits at a different nexus, the classic clash of nature and commerce. Read […]