POLICY AND OUTREACH

in the news

February 2008: Public Invited to Symposium on MPAs.  The first five-year report on Marine Protected Areas and no-take zones around the northern Channel Islands will be presented during a symposium Feb 7-8

>> http://www.thelog.com/news/logNewsArticle.aspx?x=5100

>> press release


July 2007: Oregon State University press release "OSU Scientists Detect Low-Oxygen Zones Forming Off Coast for Sixth Straight Year". 

>> press release

>> PISCO hypoxia webpage


Feb-2007: Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Oregon State University Professors Jack Barth and Francis Chan. They discuss the use of underwater robots to study the oxygen-starved dead zones in the Pacific off the Oregon coast.

>> http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1742.html


Feb-2007: COMPASS and PISCO press release "Newly Discovered West Coast Arrhythmias Cause Marine Life Die-offs, Interplay of climate and currents disrupts marine ecosystems," covering research presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting

 >> press release (.pdf, 189 KB)


Nov-2006: Scientists helped shape policy in proposed plan for California marine reserves

>> http://currents.ucsc.edu/06-07/11-27/carr.asp


Nov-2006: Ecological Society of America press release "Saving Space: Latitude's not Enough" about the publication entitled "Mosaic patterns of thermal stress in the rocky intertidal zone: implications for climate change." 

>> www.piscoweb.org/outreach/press_releases/15November2006


Oct-2006: Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures on PBS featured PISCO/UCSB scientists in “America’s Underwater Treasures” about national marine sanctuaries. >>www.pbs.org/oceanadventures


July-2006: Oregon Public Broadcasting Radio interviewed PISCO scientists for two episodes of Oregon Territory:
• “Tidepooling with Jane Lubchenco” www.opb.org/programs/oregonterritory/episodes/2006/0721
• “Science Communication” www.opb.org/programs/oregonterritory/episodes/2006/0728 


July-October 2006: Media from around the world have reported on the unusual dead zone of low-oxygen seawater along Oregon’s coast. PISCO/OSU studies the causes and impacts of the dead zone and provides scientific information to the media.  >>www.piscoweb.org/outreach/topics/hypoxia


spring 2006: Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of The Splendid Table radio program produced by American Public Media, interviewed PISCO/Stanford scientist Steve Palumbi and learned how to cook up a DNA sample.

>> Behind-the-scenes footage: www.ggfilms.com/screenings/room7


 

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