THE NORTH
COAST
The National Science Foundation announced $19 million in
research funding for a new Science and Technology Center for Coastal
Margin Observation and Prediction. The funding creates a
partnership between OGI School of Science and Engineering at
Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon State University
and the University of Washington to study the mouth of
the Columbia River. The center, to be based at OGI in
Hillsboro, will research how the Columbia, the source of
three-quarters of the fresh water pouring into the Pacific
Ocean from the West Coast, affects wide areas of the ocean.
