Archive for the ‘water’ Category
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Over the past several months we’ve spoken to some of Oregon State’s best researchers and students who are experts in the areas of food, energy and water. We wanted to show Oregon State’s impact in these areas…which, really, wasn’t all that hard. You can’t walk into a building on this campus without running into someone [...]
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Travis Roth is a PhD student working in water resource engineering. Here he answers questions about his research in groundwater movement and snowmelt, and how future climate change may affect both. Roth’s work is just one way Oregon State’s researchers use Inventions that Serve the Public Good.
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Tags: salmon, snowmelt, water
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Bill Brignon, an Oregon State alum with a Master’s in fisheries science, is working as a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. An advanced degree from America’s Natural Resources University not only helped him land his job in a tough economy, it will help him achieve his goal of contributing to the preservation of the Northwest’s endangered salmonids.
Tags: naturalresources, salmon, water
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Oregon State will join the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in leading the coastal element of a global ocean observing network, part of which will operate off the Oregon and Washington coasts.
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Gender equity, though, is complex. “It’s more than just looking at whether women or men have access to water and sanitation systems,” says Brown. “It’s asking, ‘Which men? Which women?’ Specifically, I’ll be looking at class, race, ethniity, income, wealth, religion and caste differences.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
22 Central American and Caribbean students recently came to Oregon State to learn about solving water issues.
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