Water flows into the Pacific Ocean on the north side of Cape Lookout on the Oregon coast. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Deckhands Devon Keiner (left) and Joshua Smith work aboard the fishing vessel Southeast during a crabbing trip. (photo by Chris Peterson of Action Works Photography)

Waves wash ashore at Arch Cape where a stretch of naturally occurring cobblestone separates houses from the sandy beach there. In 2022, Oregon Sea Grant began funding a two-year project in which researchers at Oregon State University are studying how waves move cobblestones that are either naturally present or have been dumped along beaches to prevent erosion. Arch Cape is one of the sites in the study. The researchers aim to understand how the rocks may shift with seasonal storms and how effective these barriers are at preventing erosion. They also plan to develop guidance for engineers and community planners on the use of these cobble berms, which are also known as dynamic revetments. (photo by Trav Williams of Broken Banjo Photography)

Pipes emerge from a hillside on the beach in Newport, Oregon. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

A teen holds up an invertebrate during a day camp organized by Oregon Sea Grant on July 12, 2022, at Seal Rock State Recreation Site. Participants collected critters from tide pools then learned how to take care of them in aquarium tanks. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)

Morganne Price holds an invasive red swamp crayfish as it pinches a fact sheet during a workshop about invasive species on May 23, 2017, at Oregon Sea Grant's office in Corvallis. Like Price, attendees were U.S. Forest Service crew members who monitor aquatic and riparian ecosystems. Oregon Sea Grant taught them how to identify and avoid spreading invasive species while they're collecting data in the field. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Clues in a quest at Taft Pioneer Cemetery in Lincoln City lead people to a hidden box containing a logbook they can sign. Instructions for the walking tour were created by students at Taft Elementary School. This quest and others on the Oregon coast are in a book published by Oregon Sea Grant. Learn more at seagrant.oregonstate.edu/education/quests. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Connie Sullivan is the boating outreach coordinator with Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon State University Extension Service. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Capt. Rick Price (top) hoists a pot of sablefish while crew members Jason Jones (left) and Kyle Edwards bring it onto the Timmy Boy during a fishing trip off the Oregon coast. (photo by Amanda Gladics)

Karina Nielsen stands stands amid trees at Oregon's Beverly Beach State Park. She became Oregon Sea Grant's director in 2022. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)

People enjoy the indoor tide pool at Oregon Sea Grant's Visitor Center at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. (photo by Trav Williams/Broken Banjo Photography)

Vasilisa Melnikova, 9, and her father, Slava Melnikov, watch pipefish at the public education wing -- also known as the Visitor Center -- of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Oregon Sea Grant operates the Visitor Center. About 150,000 people pass through its door each year. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Deckhand Cody Mazza sorts fish aboard the Cassandra Anne. (photo by Chris Peterson of Action Works Photography)

A sign warns people to stay away from an unstable cliff in Newport, Oregon. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Leanne Cohn talks about her research at Oregon Sea Grant's 2022 State of the Coast conference at the Hatfield Marine Science Center. Cohn is a master's student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. (photo by Trav Williams of Broken Banjo Photography) Learn more: seagrant.oregonstate.edu/state-coast

Lauren Rice (in red jacket) speaks to beachgoers by Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach. She is a 2022 intern with the Haystack Rock Awareness Program (HRAP) and is a participant in Oregon Sea Grant's summer scholars internship program. She compiled and created educational content for HRAP's website. She also photographed species in the area and researched and wrote about them. Additionally, she educated beachgoers about what they were seeing in the tide pools. Rice is majoring in marine studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)

Shore Acres State Park on Oregon's southern coast is home to a Japanese-style garden with a lily pond. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Sam Chan, an invasive species and watershed health specialist with Oregon Sea Grant, speaks during a session on red seaweeds during Oregon Sea Grant's 2022 State of the Coast conference at the Hatfield Marine Science Center. (photo by Trav Williams of Broken Banjo Photography) Learn more: seagrant.oregonstate.edu/state-coast

A razor clam tries to dig into the sand at Clatsop Beach. With funding from Oregon Sea Grant, researchers at Portland State University are studying the amounts and types of microplastics in razor clams and oysters along the Oregon coast. These extremely small plastics can come from foams, tiny beads in facial creams, fibers from clothing, and disintegrating plastic bags. The researchers aim to see if there are specific places on the coast where microplastics are more prevalent and if their presence is more common during certain times of the year. The research is conducted by marine ecologist Elise Granek and master's student Britta Baechler. (photo by Tiffany Woods) WATCH VIDEO: youtu.be/WpmZbkWGayA

The Port of Newport operates an RV park in Yaquina Bay that has a view of an iconic bridge that was built in the 1930s. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

A sea anemone is in the touchable tidepool at the public education wing -- known as the Visitor Center -- of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Oregon Sea Grant operates the Visitor Center. (photo by Hannah O'Leary)

Sea anemones are in the touch tank at the public education wing -- also known as the Visitor Center -- of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Oregon Sea Grant operates the Visitor Center. About 150,000 people pass through its door each year. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

A crew films and interviews Karina Nielsen for a video that became part of an exhibit at the public education wing of the Hatfield Marine Science Center. The interview took place during her time as a doctoral student at Oregon State University in the 1990s. She becomes Oregon Sea Grant's director June 1, 2022. (photo courtesy of Karina Nielsen) Read story: seagrant.oregonstate.edu/feature/osu-alum-and-head-sfsu-s...

A child builds a Lego structure in the tsunami wave tank at the public education wing -- also known as the Visitor Center -- of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Oregon Sea Grant operates the Visitor Center. (photo by Casey Henley, Broken Banjo Photography)

Naomi Scott, an intern with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, looks for bay ghost shrimp using a shrimp pump gun in Willapa Bay in Washington. Scott is a participant in Oregon Sea Grant's 2019 summer scholars internship program. Every summer, Oregon Sea Grant places current or recent undergraduates from around the U.S. with Oregon-based federal and state agencies and nongovernmental organizations in paid, 10-week internships. (photo by Brooke McIntyre)

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George Waldbusser, a biogeochemist at Oregon State University, straps a bag of oysters to rebar as a control while doctoral student Sophia Wensman places a bag of oysters on top of empty oyster shells in Netarts Bay as part of a research project funded by Oregon Sea Grant. They aim to see if varying the amount of empty shells the oysters are stacked on affects the health and growth of the oysters differently. The empty shells dissolve and emit calcium and carbonate into the water, much like an antacid, potentially mitigating the effects of ocean acidification. The researchers aim to determine the amount of shells that will achieve the desired growth for the lowest cost. They will also measure the uranium and calcium in the oyster shells to see if the empty shells under them reduced the acidity of the water. (photo by Gustavo Garcia) WATCH VIDEO: youtu.be/dN3CymMlXvI MORE INFO: seagrant.oregonstate.edu/research/current-research/uraniu...

A heron hunts for prey in a seagrass bed in Netarts Bay. The bay is where Fiona Tomas Nash has been collecting tiny herbivores as part of an Oregon Sea Grant-funded research project. She's studying how these "grazers," including sea slugs and isopods, might help prevent eelgrass from being snuffed out by light-blocking algae. Tomas Nash is a marine ecologist in the department of fisheries and wildlife at Oregon State University. Learn more: seagrant.oregonstate.edu/research/current-research/vulner... (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Kids participate in Oregon Sea Grant's marine education program, which is based at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.

Fiona Tomas Nash collects tiny herbivores in Netarts Bay on June 28, 2017, as part of an Oregon Sea Grant-funded research project. She's studying how these "grazers," including sea slugs and isopods, might help prevent eelgrass from being snuffed out by light-blocking algae. Tomas Nash is a marine ecologist in the department of fisheries and wildlife at Oregon State University. Learn more: seagrant.oregonstate.edu/research/current-research/vulner... (photo by Tiffany Woods)

In the event of a tsunami, a sign points people to a ramp that leads to the top of the Marine Studies Building at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Visitors play with the erosion tank at the public education wing -- known as the Visitor Center -- of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Oregon Sea Grant operates the Visitor Center. (photo by Hannah O'Leary)

A person holds up a largemouth bass at a pond by Corvallis during a two-day event in which Pacific Islanders learned about recreational fishing in Oregon. Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon State University Extension Service were partners on the event along with the nonprofit Living Islands. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)

Tom Calvanese opens a bag of purple sea urchins he collected during a dive in Port Orford. He is a researcher on an Oregon Sea Grant-funded project in which divers collect malnourished sea urchins from the wild. Then researchers feed them seaweed in tanks to fatten up their gonads -- the edible part of the spiny animal -- and improve their market value. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)

James Farlin (far left) watches as two other fishermen practice CPR on a dummy during a first-aid training in Newport on May 20, 2022. Angee Doerr, a marine fisheries specialist with Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon State University Extension Service, helped teach the class. Learn more at seagrant.oregonstate.edu/ffast-fishermen-first-aid-safety... (photo by Trav Williams of Broken Banjo Photography)

Fishermen Kien Jones (left) and Charles Cromer perform CPR on a dummy during a first-aid training in Newport. Oregon Sea Grant and the Eder Family Fund paid for the class. It was taught by Kevin Buch, a diving and small boat safety officer with Oregon State University, with help from Angee Doerr, a marine fisheries specialist with Oregon Sea Grant. Laurel Kincl and Viktor Bovbjerg, both occupational safety researchers at OSU, are the leaders on the project. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

Teens and adult family members explore the tide pools at Seal Rock during a day camp organized by Oregon Sea Grant. (photo by Lindsay Carroll)

A student participates in an underwater robotics contest at a pool in Lincoln City on May 7, 2022. Oregon Sea Grant coordinates the annual event in which judges evaluate the kids' presentations, marketing displays and remote-controlled devices that they built. The robots have to carry out various tasks in the water. By designing and constructing the devices, students learn engineering and problem-solving skills. Learn more about the MATE Oregon Regional ROV Competition at materovcompetition.org/oregon. (photo by Tyler Sloan)

Clare Reimers, a distinguished professor at Oregon State University, inspects a lander before it is hoisted aboard the Robert Gordon Sproul research ship in Newport. Oregon Sea Grant funded the assembly of the lander as part of a research project to study how groundfish bottom trawling might impact areas of Oregon’s seafloor that were previously closed to fishing. Through an array of syringes, the lander simultaneously collects water just above the seafloor to measure oxygen and nutrients. An acoustic sensor measures water velocity. The water sampler was modeled after a system designed by Joel Knoery of France's Ifremer. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)

Stephanie Ichien (right), the research and scholars coordinator at Oregon Sea Grant, offers help during an information session for undergraduate and graduate students who were interested in applying for scholarships and internships that Oregon Sea Grant funds or administers. The event took place at the Centro Cultural César Chávez at Oregon State University. (photo by Tiffany Woods)

A student from Life Christian School in Aloha participates in the "navigator" intermediate level of an underwater robotics contest in Lincoln City on April 20, 2019. Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon Coast STEM Hub coordinate the annual event. (photo by Adriene Koett-Cronn)

Oregon Sea Grant helped fund an exhibit about microplastics at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. It was part of an Oregon Sea Grant-funded research project by Britta Baechler, who was a graduate student at Portland State University at the time. See journal article at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10925872211021183 (photo by Britta Baechler)

Angee Doerr, a marine fisheries specialist with Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon State University Extension Service, teaches fishermen about hypthermia during a first-aid training in Newport on May 20, 2022. Learn more at seagrant.oregonstate.edu/ffast-fishermen-first-aid-safety... (photo by Trav Williams of Broken Banjo Photography)

A giant Pacific octopus clings to the glass in its tank at the Oregon Sea Grant-run public education wing of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. The octopus is identified as GPO 20-02. The 20 stands for the year it arrived, and the 02 means it is the second giant Pacific octopus, or GPO, that Oregon Sea Grant received in 2020. (photo by Jaimie Hart)

Jackie Nguyen, a summer 2022 intern with the Oregon Kelp Alliance, looks at a tube of water from a tank of sea urchins in Bandon. It is blue because she added a solution to it to test the nitrite level. Nguyen is in the Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience internship program managed by Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. She is working on an Oregon Sea Grant-funded research project in which divers collect malnourished sea urchins from the wild, then researchers feed them seaweed in tanks to fatten up their gonads -- the edible part of the spiny animal -- and improve their market value. Nguyen's role is to monitor the ammonia, nitrate, nitrite and pH levels in tanks in Bandon and Port Orford. She earned a bachelor's degree from Oregon State University's College of Engineering in 2022. She will begin a doctorate in environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, in fall 2022. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)

Angee Doerr, a fisheries specialist with Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon State University Extension Service, leads a Shop at the Dock tour in Newport. (photo by Trav Williams of Broken Banjo Photography)

Jess Schulte measures a broadnose sevengill shark in Washington's Willapa Bay. She is a 2021-22 Robert E. Malouf scholar who is funded by Oregon Sea Grant and is studying broadnose sevengill sharks, an apex predator in the coastal waters of California, Washington and Oregon. In addition to tagging them with acoustic transmitters, she collects tissue samples and stomach contents to understand where the sharks go, what they eat and how they may affect populations of salmon, halibut and crabs and the broader Northern California Current ecosystem. The ultimate goals are to understand the top-down impacts these animals have on local ecosystems and to potentially provide data to inform management of fisheries. Schulte is a doctoral student in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)

Ron "Yogi" Briggs, the captain of the Pacific Storm, talks to students from Newport High School. The students learned to conduct research aboard the ship during a cruise that Oregon Sea Grant organized. (photo by Trav Williams of Broken Banjo Photography)

Student-operated robots perform tasks in Oregon's 6th annual Marine Advanced Technology Education Remotely Operated Vehicle competition at the pool at the Lincoln City Community Center on April 29, 2017. More than 200 students on 31 teams from elementary school through college demonstrated devices they built for the competition, which aims to prepare students for technical careers. Oregon Sea Grant coordinated the event. (photo by Justin Smith)

Intern Paola Buentello shows off sea urchins from a tank in Bandon. She is working on an Oregon Sea Grant-funded research project in which divers collect malnourished sea urchins from the wild, then researchers feed them seaweed in tanks to fatten up their gonads -- the edible part of the spiny animal -- and improve their market value. Buentello's role is to monitor the growth of the gonads. She is a student at Portland Community College. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)