COAS

Research Notes
Beneath the Earth's Surface Biology Climate Change Coastal Zones Human health Ocean physics Polar Science Satellite Remote Sensing Solar System Research
Students in the Field
Crab Pots and Ocean Observing Microbes in Hydrates Movement of Arctic Water Masses Silicon Cycle Variability Zooplankton Discoveries
Inside COAS
Clare Reimers, 2009 AGU Fellow Charlie Miller, A Selective Biography COAS 50th Anniversary

Solar System Research

The study of Earth systems can be applied to the study of other planets. What we find on other planets in the solar system can also shine light on the history of Earth.

Eddies in the Gulf of California
Large circular features on the Moon are huge impact basins formed by collisions of asteroid-sized bodies probably up to 100 km (about 62 miles) in diameter.

College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
104 COAS Administration Building
Corvallis, OR 97331-5503

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