Oregon Sea Grant is accepting applications through May 4 for its Natural Resource Policy Fellowship, which will place one graduate student fellow in an Oregon state agency for one year beginning this July. This $30,000 fellowship is intended to give a student first-hand experience in natural resource policy at the state level. The student chosen for the fellowship will interview with Oregon state agencies to find the best fit for the student and the agency.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
“Ocean of Junk” presentation at HMSC April 27
NEWPORT, Ore. – Parts of the Pacific Ocean are beginning to resemble a landfill and the increasing accumulation of debris – mainly plastic – is the focus of a special presentation on Monday, April 27, at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.
Two environmental activists from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in California will visit the center as part of their 2,000-mile bicycle tour from British Columbia to Mexico to raise awareness about what some are calling the “North Pacific Garbage Patch.”
Grant funding awarded for Oregon Sea Grant projects
Congratulations to Oregon Sea Grant faculty Nancee Hunter, Tim Miller-Morgan, and Shawn Rowe of the Hatfield Marine Science Center, and Mark Whitham of the OSU Seafood Laboratory, who recently received a combined total of $104,500 in grant funding for special infrastructure projects.
HMSC featured on Travel Oregon show
This week’s episode of “Grant’s Getaways,” a Travel Oregon video blog by Oregon broadcast journalist Grant McOmie, features OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center in Newport, where Sea Grant Extension educator Bill Hanshumaker talks about how the center connects fun with learning:
View the video at Travel Oregon’s Vimeo site).