A world of research at Oregon State University

Tag: water quality

Healthy People Innovation

To Your Health!

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date May 10, 2018

Clean water flows from a novel purification system developed in Nordica MacCarty's lab. (Photo courtesy of the College of Engineering)

OSU initiative targets a global water problem

Tags College of Engineering, groundwater, water quality

Healthy People homestories Innovation Stewardship

Clean Water for a Thirsty Region

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date May 9, 2018

OSU alumna Mandy Michalsen, left, and Jack Istok, professor in the College of Engineering, are collaborating on a groundwater restoration project in Umatilla County. (Photo courtesy of the College of Engineering)

Researchers use microorganisms to consume groundwater contaminants in Clean and Sustainable Water Technology Initiative

Tags College of Engineering, groundwater, Water Management, water quality

Healthy People

A Preventable Disaster

Post author By Dylan McDowell
Post date May 15, 2013

Fighting a war of independence should be turmoil enough for a small country, but in 1970, the people of Bangladesh also had to deal with a deadly cholera outbreak.

Tags arsenic, Bangladesh, drinking water, epidemiology, Kile, Public Health, water quality

Healthy Economy Healthy Planet Innovation

Running Clear

Post author By carilloc
Post date May 30, 2012

The Arctic Ocean, 1997. Gary Klinkhammer had strapped a water chemistry analyzer onto the hull of a retired U.S. Navy nuclear submarine to measure carbon. He had come to this bleak and desolate place looking for organic matter, fertile detritus dumped into the ocean by massive rivers in Siberia and North America.

Tags Environment and Natural Resources, Klinkhammer, Oregon State University Advantage, water quality

Healthy Planet Stewardship

Windows on Watersheds

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date April 23, 2008

Old-style logging left scars on the landscape, but nearly 40 years ago, research in Oregon changed tree-cutting practices. Now researchers are joining landowners to update the science behind modern forest management.