General Interest

Tours and Trips

• Gray Whale Natural History Trip OSU Marine Mammal Program Director Bruce Mate leads a yearly natural history trip to San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja California, Mexico, breeding and calving grounds for Eastern Pacific gray whales.
• Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport OR has exhibits, special events, a bookstore, and guided nature walks for groups.
• O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory offers an outreach program for grades K-12 and occasional events and tours for the public.
• Whale Watching Spoken Here is a volunteer whale watching program during peak gray whale migration times. Trained volunteers stationed at twenty-eight locations along the Oregon Coast provide information and assist spotting whales during whale watch weeks.

Programs

• Department of Geosciences seminars are open to the public. Topics vary widely, e.g., “coastal resource management,” “subduction zone dynamics,” “mid-ocean ridge basalt geochemistry,” or “ocean informatics.”
• Fisheries Extension and Watershed Management Program provides the public with information on fish, fisheries, aquatic habitat and watershed issues in the State of Oregon and Pacific Northwest. Workshops, publications, and links to local resources.
• The Master Watershed Steward Program entails a series of eight interrelated topics (~ 18 classroom hours and 28 field hours) that provide comprehensive watershed education at an introductory level to watershed groups, landowners, agricultural producers, conservation districts, nursery growers, foresters, planners, teachers, urban residents, or any and other interested groups and individuals.
• Watershed Extension faculty deliver watershed stewardship education and materials statewide to a variety of audiences to increase the capacity of groups and communities for conserving, improving, protecting and sustaining watershed functions and values.

Publications and Web Resources

• The Davey Jones' Locker Treasure Chest of Links provides scores of Marine/Coastal GIS and Seafloor Mapping links assist specialists, students, and interested parties from all over the world in finding helpful information and data.
• Ocean & Air is an online magazine of innovation in Earth Systems Science, from COAS at Oregon State University.
• The Oregon Coastal Atlas is a data and map depot for resource decision-making related to the Oregon Coastal Zone. The atlas provides background information for different coastal systems, access to interactive mapping, online geospatial analysis tools, and direct download access to various planning and natural resource data sets relating to coastal zone management.
• Oregon Sea Grant Publications and Videos include a wide variety of educational material for resource managers and users, teachers and families, and the general public. Some are available free by mail or by download; some are for sale on-line; all are available by mail or toll-free number.
• PISCO (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans) offers public-interest publications for download. They also make available scientific information and films about nearshore ecosystems to policy makers, resource managers, the media, undergraduate and graduate students, and the public.