Breaking Waves

The following publications are available from http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/sgpubs/newpubs.html The Economics of Invasive Species Expand Your View: Insights for public communicators from behavioral research

Offshore aquaculture — the cultivation of fish and shellfish in the open ocean — has been practiced successfully for years in coastal waters around the world. However, offshore aquaculture is sparse in the United States and nonexistent in the Pacific Northwest, and the resulting seafood trade deficit is costing us billions of dollars per year. [...]

Oregon Sea Grant Extension is partnering with the Oregon Environmental Council to offer a series of low impact development (LID) workshops for Oregon¹s growing communities. The goal is to expand the adoption of sustainable stormwater management practices that protect watersheds from urban runoff while reducing costs. The workshops will be of particular interest to builders, developers, [...]

The Oregon Sea Grant Watershed Extension Team will present its first Oregon Water School April 17-18 in McMinnville. Programming includes a “Watersheds 101″ introduction to core concepts, and a two-track series of classes on the topics of Water Quality and Watershed Stewardship, and Gardening and Landscape Practices. Students may register for an entire track, or [...]

Sea Grant, NOAA and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry join forces to present part two of the  “Learning Ocean Science through Ocean Exploration Curriculum”  professional development series for grade 6-12 teachers on April 4 at OMSI in Portland. A followup to the an introductory workshop based on the NOAA-developed Ocean Exploration Program curriculum, [...]

“In 2006, Oregon and Washington experienced the worst hypoxic event on record as near-shore oxygen levels dropped in some places to zero…” So writes Julie Howard, Oregon Sea Grant program assistant, in the March/April 2009 edition of Oregon Coast magazine. Her article, “An Ocean without Oxygen,” goes on to describe some of the possible causes [...]

The Japanese Society of Fisheries Sciences (JSFS) has awarded Oregon Sea Grant researcher Jae Park and his co-authors an Award of Excellence for their paper, “New approaches for the effective recovery of fish proteins and their physicochemical characteristics” (Y. S. Kim, J. W. Park, and Y. J. Choi, Fisheries Science 69(6), 1231-1239, 2003). The paper [...]

A day at the beach in Oregon can be a bit mind-bending. The Sci-Fi Channel could find lots to be inspired by here. The ocean and the shoreline environment are some of the most dynamic places on Earth, where things constantly change, sometimes in truly freaky ways. Bill Hanshumaker, Public Marine Education Specialist with the [...]