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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.

 Binglin (Ben) Li will focus his research efforts on identifying and characterizing the microbial communities inhabiting the Columbia River estuarine and marine environments.

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.
 

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.

CMOP research is being presented at 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.

Some say oceanography is going through an age of discovery. There are scientists that no longer rely on ship-based methods to study the oceans. They are using observatories to study the biology and chemistry of the oceans on a large scale.
 

Data Explorer is a unique, new web application that makes it easier to visualize and explore river and ocean data.

Research into the  genetics of Myrionecta rubra (M. rubra) that forms red tides in the Columbia River estuary has been accepted in the journal of Aquatic Microbial Ecology.

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 to join the 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.