Research

Researchers from Mexico and the United States have concluded that a population of fin whales in the rich Gulf of California ecosystem may live there year-round an unusual circumstance for a whale species known to migrate across ocean basins. … Read full story.

Researchers using artificial intelligence and big data plan to develop new algorithms that they say will enable them to identify, locate and eventually predict crimes committed in the worlds oceans, from illegal fishing off the Patagonia shelf to drug smuggling in Central America to slave labor and human trafficking in the Indian Ocean. … Read full story.

Researchers, including two Oregon State University scientists, argue in a new study that a paradigm shift is needed for assessing bridges tsunami risk. … Read full story.

Scientists have documented a two-part climatic connection between the North Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica, a fast atmospheric channel and a much slower oceanic one, that caused rapid changes in climate during the last ice age and may again. … Read full story.

A new federal report on the impacts of climate change release on Friday that includes a chapter focusing on the Pacific Northwest warns that more years like 2015 may lie ahead for the region and they may be even worse. … Read full story.