While the coastal waters of western North America hold great promise for wind and wave energy development, many concerns have been raised about the potential environmental impacts of the installation of these devices and their complex mooring systems. Here I focus on characterizing benthic habitats and biological communities in offshore...
The Marine Bioinvasion Lab is located at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center. A major focus is identification of native, introduced and invasive species found in Oregon's estuaries. John Chapman, Ralph Breitenstein and Gayle Hansen compiled this current spreadsheet of the marine algae and invertebrates in the Yaquina and...