Oregon Sea Grant

Oregon Sea Grant Extension works alongside partners across the state to provide research-based support that meets the needs of Oregon's coastal communities. We're excited to expand that work by growing our support for Oregon's aquaculture and mariculture industries. Take a look at the steps we're taking and what they mean for Oregon's coast! https://lnkd.in/gdugCjhM

As #CleanBeachesWeek comes to a close, we are excited to highlight one of our 2026 #OASIS interns, Peeta Arenas-Galicia, at the City of Yachats.  Peeta, a current Ecological Engineering student at Oregon State University, shares: “Working my first job at a coffee shop in Newport, I couldn't shake an uneasy feeling every single shift. Disposable cups, lids, and sleeves are handed out one after another, and out of every 30 customers, maybe one would bring a reusable cup. I started doing the math in my head and the numbers didn't sit right with me. Where was all of that going? A lot of it, I learned, was ending up in the oceans. This summer I'm interning with the City of Yachats through the Oregon Sea Grant OASIS Program, working on a Waste Prevention and Materials Reduction Initiative. My project centers on reducing single-use plastics and marine debris at the source before plastic cups, utensils, and packaging ever have a chance to reach Oregon's coastline. I've been conducting waste audits at local events, tracking what's being consumed and what's being thrown away, and building a data-driven foundation for a recommendations guide that will help both city staff and facility renters make the swap from disposable to reusable as easy as possible. Every audit I complete, every plastic cup I count, and every recommendation I draft is a step toward the engineer I want to be. I want to build systems that protect natural resources and serve the communities that depend on them. I am so happy to have a full circle moment from being a high schooler who worked at a coffee shop worrying about marine debris to taking action and finding solutions to these problems.” The OASIS program is funded by a Pollution Prevention grant from the Environmental Protection Agency and administered through Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The City of Yachats project is additionally funded by a NOAA Marine Debris Removal grant. #OASISintern #OregonSeaGrant #pollutionprevention #CityofYachats

We're excited to introduce The Sea Stack, Oregon Sea Grant's new biannual newsletter! Our first issue, the Summer 2026 edition, is out today! Inside, you'll find stories about research, communities, education, and the partnerships making a difference on Oregon's coast. Curious how Oregon's iconic sea stacks got their name? Swipe through to learn how they formed—and why they inspired the name of our newsletter. Read the Summer issue: https://lnkd.in/gbk--CJU Subscribe to The Sea Stack: https://lnkd.in/gqAcAWAx

Join us on July 23rd (10-11:30am) for the quarterly Oregon Mariculture Network meeting! We’ll be diving into a recent report on awareness and attitudes toward aquaculture in the Pacific Region, discussing critical knowledge gaps, and exploring how we can better support aquaculture education together. This meeting will take place via Zoom. Email soneill@ecotrust.org or alex.marquardt@oregonstate.edu with questions. Registration link: https://lnkd.in/gmE5PXPm About the Network: Hosted by Oregon Sea Grant, Ecotrust, and the Oregon Aquaculture Association, the Oregon Mariculture Network brings together growers, Tribes, scientists, agencies, and others engaged in Oregon’s mariculture sector for knowledge-sharing and learning. 

Are you passionate about making science accessible and engaging for wide-ranging audiences? Oregon Sea Grant seeks a Strategic Communications Lead to enhance and support our programs for internal and external audiences. This role will be responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating communications, blending strategic leadership with hands-on content development to effectively achieve our program goals. This position oversees and directly contributes to the creation, writing, editing, and production of engaging content across our print and digital platforms, working collaboratively with leadership and other program staff. Full consideration date: 7/13/26 Closing date: 07/23/2026 Full position description and application information: https://lnkd.in/gxfmAb-N

Our newest impact story explores the many ways we connect Oregonians to their local seafood. One of those efforts is our Shop at the Dock & Discover Oregon Seafood tours, which bring people face-to-face with the people, places, and practices behind Oregon’s seafood industry. Are you ready to meet your local seafood? Summer 2026 tours begin this month! Read the full story and register for an upcoming tour near you at https://bit.ly/DockTours

I recently published my first solo feature for KLCC about seafloor monitoring taking place at the PacWave site off the Oregon coast, and the opportunities for local students to shadow marine scientists for a day 😎 🌊 Thank you so much to Oregon State University and Oregon Sea Grant for inviting me out for a day on the R/V Pacific Storm. It felt good to put my Grundéns and Xtratufs on and pretend I was a fisheries scientist again — though this time I didn't need to get nearly as dirty! https://lnkd.in/giE2FAbi #KLCC #NPR #publicradio #publicradionerd #scicomm #sciencecommunication

What do gray whales, kelp forests, and the Oregon coast have in common? OPB joined Oregon State University field researchers from the GEMM Lab and Marine Mammal Institute in Port Orford to document Dr. Leigh Torres' long-running gray whale research project. Torres, Oregon Sea Grant's Marine Mammal Extension Specialist, and her team are studying the gray whales that spend their summers along the Oregon coast and exploring their connection to kelp ecosystems. Catch the Oregon Field Guide story on PBS on June 18 at 8:30 p.m. PT, or watch online now: https://lnkd.in/g68RvhZY