Create a healthy future for our ocean and the planet through transdisciplinary research and teaching that emphasizes collaboration, experiential learning, engagement with society and problem solving.
The world's ocean belongs to everyone and its health is critical to our future. The world is increasingly looking toward the ocean to provide food, renewable energy, climate impact mitigation, safe shipping and commerce, as well as for recreation and spiritual renewal. However, marine habitats are facing new and daunting pressures that threaten their sustainability — from climate change to pollution to dwindling fish stocks.
Building on a deep history of nationally ranked programs, world-leading research, and premier facilities, the Marine Studies Initiative is pioneering new research and teaching models to help sustain healthy ocean and coasts to ensure wellness, environmental health, and economic prosperity for future generations. The Marine Studies Initiative is a university-wide commitment that will have local to global impacts on the economy and environment.
Harnessing the collective expertise of faculty and staff from across campus, we are advancing practices and innovations that promote positive change for the university and the community it serves. We are weaving together the natural and social sciences with arts and humanities in an exceptional education, research, and outreach program to explore all facets of the marine environment and its dynamic connections to terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, while positively impacting economic and social progress. Learn more from our Strategic Plan.
Oregon offers an unparalleled living-learning laboratory with diverse ecosystems, including a 300-mile coastline. Our centers of research on the Oregon Coast include:
We have expanded and enhanced facilities to provide environments that encourage creative collaborations, leverage the university's strengths, and have meaningful impacts. This includes the new Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building at the Hatfield Marine Science Center.
The United Nations celebrates World Oceans Day every year on 8 June. The groundswell grows each year, as countries and communities use this day to celebrate all the ocean gives us.
The OSU Marine Studies Initiative is organizing a campus-wide event to recognize this day and help raise awareness about the importance of a healthy ocean.
We invite you to join us in this effort to celebrate and share all the remarkable marine-related work OSU contributes to the world.
Join us as we celebrate the ocean in the Memorial Union Quad at the OSU campus on Thursday, June 8th from 11am - 2pm.
Stop by and learn from the Ocean11 Marine Club, learn about courses & opportunities at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, and more!
A transforming climate and ocean is leading to unpredictable changes. One change is more frequent and unpredictable phenomena like hypoxia, a low-oxygen condition that can harm and kill sea life. This film explores the researchers investigating hypoxia and the communities that are impacted by ocean change.
Read more at: https://terra.oregonstate.edu/2022/12...
Check out the video series "The Wind Moves Us"
2023 MSI Student Award applications open NOW!
Learn about the Marine Degrees OSU offers
