Total immersion: Researchers dive, sometimes into treacherous waters, in the search for disease-fighting compounds and solutions to crashing fisheries. Ensuring their safety is Kevin Buch’s job.

Check out the latest issue of Terra, OSU’s research magazine, for a fascinating article about marine scientists – including Sea Grant-funded Kerry McPhail – whose other “lab” is  in the deep, blue sea … and the veteran diver who trains them to stay safe in sometimes perilous waters.

Learn more:

• Read about Kerry McPhail’s current OSG-supported research, which seeks to identify new antibiotics from micro-organisms found clustered around deep-sea hydrothermic vents
• Download a printable copy of Terra’s latest issue