Ocean Trekker

Emily has recently completed her master's degree and is now continuing, as an OSU faculty research assistant, to study the physical processes in estuaries and developing outreach tools to convey that information.

Jed is working on a degree in the Professional Science Master's program. He is conducting the program's internship with Moonshine Park Fish Company where he is looking at combining traceability, sustainability, and business.

Quagmire is working on her own biology experiment and calling to us daily through the Pacific to set out on yet another voyage. She is anxiously awaiting her new coat of deck and house paint this year.

Exhibit – Buoys Rock!

May 2nd, 2012

“Buoys Rock!” is an interactive map reading exhibit. It asks the visitor to interpret a ocean weather map off the Pacific Northwest coast and select the appropriate buoys (buttons) that are experiencing certain weather phenomenon.

Bella On Board Part 2 – Sailing!

Apr 21st, 2012

A week after adopting our new puppy, we crammed her in the car for an hour and a half long drive to the coast, made her climb all over this giant hulk of slippery, wet, misshapen, rocking piece of plastic to find her food, and even submitted her to the jarring bellowing monster that is [...]

Interactive Telegraph Exhibit

Jan 12th, 2012

Frontier military outposts required lines of communication to other outposts, supply depots, command centers, and field operations. The telegraph was a revolutionary form of communication in the 1870-80′s for the U.S. Army across the American frontier. Starting in 1875-76, the U.S. Army built the first 25 telegraph stations in Texas. In 1882, the U.S. Army’s [...]

Mushing with Bella

Dec 19th, 2011

Bella is special; she’s not at all like the labs that I grew up with, or many of the other dogs that either of us are used to having in our lives. For one, she doesn’t play fetch. At all. She can’t even be bothered to chase after the ball and then not bring it [...]