Oregon State University CEOAS

Oregon’s record low snowpack is not likely to recover, scientists say Scientists say it’s unlikely Oregon’s record low snowpack will recover before the end of winter.

“We know that the winters in the coming decades are going to be much more like this... look at how impactful these conditions are to us, because we know we’re going to expect them more in the future.” - Larry O'Neill, Oregon's state climatologist

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Spotlight on: The Disasters in Divided Societies lab with Laura Peters in CEOAS | OSU Today Laura Peters is an assistant professor of geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

"For a lab focusing on disasters, we end up engaging with some of the most powerful stories of hope and creativity."

#CEOAS geographer Laura Peters asks how disaster risk can be reduced in places affected by conflict, displacement or deep division: today.oregonstate.edu/all-stories/...

A Pacific Northwest girl ‘raised by the ocean’ grows up to make notable contributions to worldwide ocean health “Standing at the edge of the world, in a place I only knew from photos and documentaries, I can’t imagine a greater thrill than this,” she wrote in one account. “The thrill of seeking to know the ocea...

Congrats to #CEOAS graduate student, Giulia Wood, on being named Oregon State University's first Marshall Scholar!

Read about how hands-on research experiences at OSU helped launch a career studying krill and ocean health, taking her from the classroom to fieldwork in Antarctica:

What Could Happen to the Ocean’s Carbon If AMOC Collapses - Eos Mass glacier melting may have led this influential ocean current system to collapse at the end of the last ice age. A pair of modeling studies examines how such a collapse could affect dissolved inorg...

New research led by @andreasschmittner.bsky.social @osuceoas.bsky.social simulates an AMOC collapse to learn how it could affect ocean carbon storage, isotopic signatures, and carbon cycling. #AGUPubs 🧪🌊 eos.org/research-spo...

SWAIS2C — Sensitivity of the West #Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C — seeks critical geological records from the sediment deep below the Ross Ice Shelf to determine how much the #ice melted during the past. Because to prepare for the future, we need to look back.

#CEOAS #Science #Climate #Collaboration

Drilling a 200m sediment core from the bedrock beneath 500m of Antarctic ice is a complex process, so we've broken it down step-by-step in this explainer. From melting snow in our flubbers through to filling our core barrels, what we're attempting 700km from the nearest base is no mean feat!

"Dr. Pettit and others expect the shelf to break apart entirely in the next few years, becoming a mélange of giant icebergs. Once that happens, the #ice upstream could start moving quickly to fill the void, Dr. Pettit said. “They are connected in ways that we don’t fully understand"

#CEOAS #Science

Stop by Booth 303 to take your turn piloting the R/V Taani, a state-of-the-art research vessel that will soon have its home port in Newport, Oregon!

#Science #Research #EarthScience #ClimateScience #EnvironmentalScience #Geology #Geography #Oceanography #RCRV

And, remember to join us tonight Tuesday, December 16, for an informal social with free drinks and appetizers:
Annunciation Restaurant, New Orleans
5:30-8 p.m.

Find your fellow #CEOAS scientists on the schedule this week: beav.es/CEOASatAGU2025

#Science #Research #EarthScience

The faces of #CEOAS science! Collect the full set of trading cards at #AGU2025 in New Orleans this week. Oregon State University is at the Exhibition Hall, Booth 303!

New Lessons from Old Ice: How We Understand Past (and Future) Heating - Eos Fragments of blue ice up to 6 million years old—the oldest ever found—offer key insights into Earth’s warming cycles. Researchers are using these ancient data to refine models of our future climate.

“Ice cores are like time machines that let scientists take a look at what our planet was like in the past," said Sarah Shackleton, lead researcher and scientist at @whoi.edu.

Hear more from Sarah and @blueicedude.bsky.social from @princeton.edu in EOS: eos.org/articles/new...

Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East Antarctica | PNAS Antarctic ice cores provide a unique archive of Earth’s atmosphere and its largest extant ice sheet. The oldest continuous ice core extends back 80...

A team of #NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration #COLDEX scientists recently found 6 million year old ice in Antarctica. That's old ice!

Air bubbles trapped inside this #ice provide an unprecedented view of Earth's past #climate.

Read the paper in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Why Hasn’t Wave Energy Gotten Its Sea Legs Yet? It’s hard to convert energy from the ocean into electricity, thanks to a tough regulatory environment and, well, the ocean.

PacWave is an 80-million dollar facility that lets developers "plug and play," testing #renewable energy technologies that might someday capture the strength of the ocean.

@scifri.bsky.social has the latest on harnessing wave #power into energy: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/wav...

"You want big waves, you want consistency in big waves. And Oregon really has this in droves...all of these conditions come together to produce one of the areas of the world with the highest #wave energy potential."

One of the largest wave #energy projects, PacWave, is located off Oregon's coast.

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New study finds large fluctuations in sea level occurred throughout the last ice age, a significant shift in understanding of past climate | Newsroom CORVALLIS, Ore. — Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period, a study...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period.

#CEOAS paleoclimatologist Peter Clark shares the latest:

Twin threat: Cascadia and San Andreas faults may be seismically linked | Newsroom CORVALLIS, Ore. – Two fault systems on North America’s West Coast – the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault – may be synchronized, with earthquakes on one fault potentially triggering s...

Chris Goldfinger, #CEOAS marine #geologist, uses deep-sea sediment cores that represent 3,100 years of geologic history to analyze historical earthquakes.

'Turbidite' layers are deposited by underwater landslides often triggered by #earthquakes.

Learn more: news.oregonstate.edu/news/twin-th...

This research vessel studies an underwater volcano off Oregon's coast The Research Vessel Atlantis is a ship currently around 300 miles off of the Oregon Coast, as it monitors the Axial Seamount underwater volcano and replaces sensors and equipment that are part of the ...

#CEOAS researchers with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI Endurance Array) use an advanced network of underwater sensors to monitor these changes in near real-time.

Learn more: www.kptv.com/video/2025/0...

300 miles off the coast of Oregon and thousands of feet beneath the surface, the Axial Seamount underwater volcano has shown signs of increased seismic activity and growing pressure – an indication that it may soon erupt.

2025 OER Champion Awards Open Oregon Educational Resources recognizes OER champions who have done outstanding open education work in Oregon’s community colleges and universities. Congratulations champions! Read more…

Congratulations to #CEOAS Professor Andreas Schmittner on the outstanding publication award for his book, Introduction to #ClimateScience, from Open Oregon Educational Resources! openoregon.org/2025-champio... #OpenAccess

Congrats to our #CEOAS award winners at University Day 2025!

Christo Buizert earned the Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award and Andrea Allan earned the Faculty Excellence in Online Teaching Award.

Read about their achievements: today.oregonstate.edu/.../universi...

How the Columbia River Basin formed over millions of years The field evidence of ancient cataclysms in Washington are everywhere to be seen — if you know where to look.

Geology rocks! Our upcoming Thomas Condon Lecture speaker, geologist Nick Zentner goes with the flow – lava flows and ice age floods, that is – to reveal the ancient path of the Columbia River: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Mark your calendar and join us Wednesday, October 29, 6 p.m.

CEOAS professor’s conflict-mapping group wins European Space Agency award | OSU Today The Decentralized Damage Mapping Group (DDMG), founded by geography professor Jamon Van Den Hoek in OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, is receiving the 2025 Earth Observation Exc...

#CEOAS geographer, Jamon Van Den Hoek, recently received an award from NASA’s European counterpart, the European Space Agency, for timely and accessible visualizations of the environmental damage of wars and natural disasters: today.oregonstate.edu/all-stories/...
#MapMonday

Where Science Meets Story - Oregon Stater Jack Barth, professor of oceanography in Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, has been on a lot of ships in his time. He has deployed instruments and collected ...

This spring, CEOAS oceanographer Jack Barth set out on an incredible voyage that traveled as much through history as it did through the waves of Mexico's Sea of Cortez... #WesternFlyer #Steinbeck #CanneryRow #Oceanography

Read more in the Oregon Stater: oregonstater.org/where-scienc...

From land-locked to sea legs: Oceanography major Athena Abrahamsen sets sail | College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Photo credit: Luke Hunter By Nancy Steinberg How does a childhood spent in land-locked Tempe, Arizona and West Linn, Oregon inspire a student’s plan for a career in oceanography? In the case of Athena...

“I loved participating in sea-going research and working aboard #research vessels.”

Follow recent #CEOAS graduate Athena Abrahamsen’s journey from desert to sea: ceoas.oregonstate.edu/athena-abrah...

#Oceanography #StudentResearch #ClimateScience #MyCEOASJourney

YouTube video by The Gist Michael Harte: Tariffs and Trade | The Gist

Listen in as Michael Harte, #CEOAS professor and associate dean for undergrad programs, reflects on his time as chief economics advisor to the Falkland Islands on The Gist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkT5...

Smiling woman holds small fish in outstretched hands toward the camera.

Drone view of a Greenland fjord dotted with floating ice.

#CEOAS graduate student Haley Carlton went to Greenland on a #research cruise, and learned about more than just ecological food webs: online.flippingbook.com/view/4765300...

Thanks for sharing. We're always wishing for more science!⚓