November, 2009


Seafloor Drilling in the Bering Sea


A two-month expedition recovered about six kilometers of seafloor cores that span several million years of geologic history and record the onset of the Pleistocene Ice Ages.

 

Christina Ravelo and Alan Mix


 

River Hydrodynamics

 

Tuba Özkan-Haller and PhD student Greg Wilson are working to extend the community Regional Ocean Model System to predict river bathymetry from flow rate and curvature.

 

Research barge on the Snohomish River


 

Other Recent Articles:

 

 

Christoph Thomas

Carbon Uptake by Forests

 

Researchers are interested in what drives forest photosynthesis, respiration and net carbon sequenstration on seasonal and interannual scales. Christoph Thomas has found that "thinking like a tree" and defining a novel "hydro-ecological" year of four season, better predicts carbon uptake in drought-stressed forests. 


 

R/V Yaquina, 1973

50th Anniversary & Reunion


See videos, photos, history timeline and other materials from the July 2009 reunion. Anniversary events continue throughout the year.