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Measurements made from the largest Greenland ice sample ever analyzed have confirmed that an unusual rise in atmospheric methane levels about 12,000 years ago was not the result of a catastrophic release of seafloor “hydrate deposits,” as some scientists had feared.

Stevan Arnold, a professor of zoology at Oregon State University, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

(The Oregonian) Scientists at Oregon State University and China’s Peking University hope a new partnership will help understand the health impact and cancer-causing potential of certain air masses and where they come from.

(Daily Journal of Commerce) Oregon State University’s College of Science and College of Engineering have been notified by the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House that it will receive a five-year, $3 million grant to help develop a Center for Inverse Design.

OSU marine biologist Jane Lubchenco has been confirmed as the new undersecretary of the U.S. Commerce Department for oceans and atmosphere. The vote by the U.S. Senate makes her the first woman in charge of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which overseas fisheries, oceans and the National Weather Service.

In winter 2008-09, Logan Mitchell is spending two months working at the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide research station in Antarctica, along with 45 other scientists, students and technicians.

Come join in the fun and 'Discover' what you can do with science twice a year. Discovery Days, a bi-annual science outreach program sponsored by the College of Science and College of Engineering at Oregon State University, will be held on November 4 and 5, 2008 and May 5 and 6, 2009 in the LaSells Stewart Center.

A study being published the week of February 19 suggests that gas and vapor movement to the top of the magma body may have caused fairly rapid increases in pressure and could have been the triggering mechanism that caused Mount St. Helens to erupt in both 1980 and 2004.

Former students and other supporters have pledged $500,000 to establish an endowed professorship at Oregon State University in honor of geology professor emeritus Bob Yeats.

Oregon State University is ranked tops in the nation in the study of agricultural sciences and sixth for its geosciences research, based on the citation impact of its scientists’ published research.