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08/09/10 Portland, OR

Scientists from the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP) teamed up with teachers from around the country this summer to transform the center's observatory data into curriculum for students.

The recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, Michela Burla left her native Italy in 2001 with a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering to join OHSU’s Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) and begin her Ph.D. thesis, The Columbia River Estuary and Plume: Natural Variability, Anthropogenic Change and Physical Habitat for Salmon. She successfully defended in July 2009 and will officially earned her degree last June.

05/25/10 Portland, OR

Read the Resolution (pdf)The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) re-affirmed its support of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) in its engagement of the Native American community at their 2010 mid year conference.

05/12/10 Portland, OR

Sarah F. Riseman, Marine Biochemistry TechnicianThe Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) at Oregon Health & Science University announced today that it has appointed Sarah F. Riseman to the position of marine biochemistry technician. Riseman will assume her duties at CMOP on May 17, 2010.

“As the SATURN collaboratory continues to mature as a unique scientific resource for CMOP and the Pacific Northwest, Sarah greatly adds to our ability to quality-control data and to coordinate across interdisciplinary teams working in the field and laboratory,” says Antonio Baptista, director of CMOP.

05/03/10 Portland, OR

This is an example of the particle tracking model used to predict the direction the glider would drift. Red represents the glider GPS signals. Green represents the particle tracking forecast.
Enlarge imageSophisticated forecast modeling tools developed at the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP) were recently used to assist in the rescue of a disabled underwater glider.

CMOP researchers spent two days using a particle-tracking model to predict where and when their glider, nicknamed “Phoebe,” would drift ashore. This helped researchers understand how much time they had to stage a recovery operation.

04/13/10 Beaverton, OR

April showers may bring May flowers but it also brings runoff of agricultural fertilizers into rivers and estuaries. In Portland, Oregon, the rain also stresses the sewer system and may cause overflow of sewage into the waterways. This anthropogenic pollution includes inorganic nitrogen (nitrate, NO3-) and can cause eutrophication in an ecosystem.

03/30/19 Hillsboro, OR

Karen Wegner, CMOP Director of K-12 Education, was recognized as a valued partner in education by the Northwest Regional Education Service District (NWRESD). Wegner was instrumental in organizing the Ocean FEST science night that took place at the ESD in Hillsboro, Oregon on March 1.

01/21/10 Seattle, WA

Tom Sanford, Ph.D.

Tom Sanford, Ph.D., an investigator with the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP) and oceanographer at the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington (APL-UW), has been awarded The Henry Stommel Research Award by the American Meteorological Society.

The Henry Stommel Research Award is granted to researchers in recognition of their outstanding contributions to advance understanding of ocean dynamics and physics.