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 […]
OSU Marine Mammal Institute
OSU study of whales off central Oregon coast finds they’re eating millions of microplastics and fibers each day
By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service NEWPORT — Oregon State University researchers estimate that gray whales feeding off the Oregon coast consume up to 21 million microparticles per day, a […]
Ocean researchers in Newport find that upwelling, heat waves are biggest factors in whale entanglement in crab gear
By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service NEWPORT – New research by an Oregon State University-led team is beginning to unravel the times of year and locations where whales are at […]
New OSU research website “IndividuWhale” designed to help public understand Oregon’s resident gray whales
By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT – Scarlett is known for the large scar on her back. Equal bears the mark of a boat propeller injury. Roller Skate’s fluke […]
OSU hauls blue whale bones out of Yaquina Bay after three years of “cleaning”
By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU NEWPORT – After more than three years at the bottom of Yaquina Bay, the skeleton of a 78-foot blue whale has been put on dry land so […]
OSU names new director of Marine Mammal Institute in Newport
NEWPORT – Lisa Ballance, an ecologist at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries research center in California was named Monday as director of Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute […]