By MOLLY ROSBACH/OSU News Service NEWPORT – Taylor Hersh, a researcher at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, has been named one of five women in science awardees by L’Oreal […]
Environment
Latest count of gray whale calves along West Coast shows them at a near-record low, NOAA researchers report
By NOAA News Service The number of gray whale calves migrating with their mothers along the West Coast this year was one of the lowest on record, NOAA Fisheries […]
A very wet end of October pushes Yachats-area’s 10-month rain totals to highest in a dozen years
October on the central Oregon coast was a nice sunny fall month – until it wasn’t. Five of the last 11 days of October saw rain totals of more […]
Can Oregon coast seaweed help eastern Oregon cattle from producing too much greenhouse gases?
By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service Can seaweed grown on the Oregon coast help prevent beef cattle in eastern Oregon from producing too much methane? Oregon State University researchers are […]
Agencies place 700 big trees in Coast Range streams to restore habitat and help salmon, steelhead thrive
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews FIVE RIVERS – The first warning of impending danger arrives with the distant thrum of slapping blades that quickly gives way to the rhythmic thumping of […]
Seven years of drone pictures now giving OSU researchers new insights into coastal whale group
By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT – Drone footage captured by researchers in Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute is offering new insight into the acrobatics undertaken by gray […]
Feds postpone auction of wind energy sites off southern Oregon coast as Kotek pulls out of task force
By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle Amid mounting opposition to offshore wind development off the coast of Oregon, the federal government announced Friday it is delaying a planned auction for […]
Central coast salmon, steelhead hatchery on closure list as ODFW examines facilities, proposes cuts
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews OTIS – Clayton Morgan has spent the last eight years caring for hundreds of thousands of salmon, steelhead and trout at the state’s hatchery along the […]
Newport-based researchers halfway through four-year study how offshore wind turbines might affect sea life
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews For Lisa Ballance and her Oregon State University colleagues, it’s two years down and two to go in their ambitious effort to help federal regulators figure […]
Coos, Umpqua, Siuslaw tribes sue federal government in effort to stop October offshore wind auction
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Officials from the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians are suing the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management over its decision […]