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05/17/12 Portland, Ore.

Graduate students at the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP) continue to raise the bar on educational excellence every day. Three students were recently awarded fellowships and two others have been accepted into a highly competitive summer course.

03/26/12 Newport, Ore.

This week, scientists from the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP) will lead the first research cruise aboard Oregon State University’s newly acquired research vessel the R/V Oceanus. CMOP’s multi-institutional team will traverse the Oregon and Washington coastlines to continue studying how climate change and human activities are affecting coastal areas.

02/15/12 Portland, Ore.

CMOP’s biogeochemical observation network in the Columbia River estuary is one of the most advanced in the world. Understanding the estuary’s biogeochemical pathways and ecological processes requires equally advanced modeling approaches.

12/01/11 Portland, Ore.

It is not often that a graduate student gives their first poster presentation at a conference and comes back a winner.  

That is what happened, however, to Leslie Slasor at the American Chemical Society meeting in Denver, Colorado.  

11/16/11 Portland, Ore.

Antonio Baptista, director of the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction, gave a keynote lecture at the 2011 International Conference on Water, Energy and Environment (ICWEE) on November 15 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

08/22/11 Portland, Ore.

The Editors of the Journal of Bacteriology (JB) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Publications Board unanimously selected Peter Zuber as this year's recipient of the Jack Kenney Award for Outstanding Service on the Editorial Board.

07/29/11 Portland, Ore.

The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced today that it has appointed Binglin (Ben) Li to a post-doctoral research position with the Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems (EBS) and the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP).

06/20/11 Portland, Ore.

The Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Predictions’ video on the research into red water blooms in the Columbia River estuary has a won a prestigious Telly Award. The video titled “Red Water” won a 2011 Bronze Telly award in the ‘Online Video – Nature’ category.

02/28/11 Portland, Ore.

Oregon Health & Science University’s Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP) has received a $17 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center to continue its research of coastal margins for the next five years. Coastal margins are biologically rich but highly vulnerable environments where rivers meet the ocean.

Portland, Ore. — The American Society for Limnology and Oceanography is holding its biennial ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico on February 13-18, 2011. Scientists from around the world will converge to discuss emerging science on Limnology and Oceanography in a Changing World.