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Earth Healthy Planet

An Iceberg Roars

OSU scientists were astounded recently when they listened to recordings of an iceberg that had formed in Antarctica, floated into the open ocean, and eventually melted and broke apart. Scientists have dubbed this phenomenon an “icequake.”

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Earth Healthy Planet

Dolphins Hunt Together

Watch spinner dolphins corral their quarry and work together to feed in these animations.

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Earth Healthy Planet

Genius of the Sea

Not only is Kelly Benoit-Bird unbounded by species classifications, she also is unrestrained by the dimensions of time and space.

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Healthy Planet Marine Studies Initiative

Out of the Depths

It was like a scene from a grade-B horror film. On a gently rocking vessel in the warm waters of the Sea of Cortez, a young oceanographer earnestly watches her computer screen while colleagues lower a cable into the water.