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ARCS Scholar, Erin Peck, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, OSU, presented her Master Thesis Defense on "Competing Roles of Sea Level Rise and Sediment Supply on Oregon Salt March Accretion and Carbon Burial."  Accelerated sea level rise and human landscape alteration threaten the persistence of salt marshes along... Read more

ARCS Scholar, Kevin Watanabe-Smith, PhD, is a cancer biologist in Dr. Brian Druker's lab at OHSU.  “Mutations are part of life. They are mistakes in a gene like typos in a text message,” said Watanabe-Smith, a postdoctoral fellow with the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. “But which mutations cause cancer? That’s... Read more

As spring approaches, tiny frogs begin to make big noises in the mid-valley wetlands. Oregon State University doctoral student and ARCS Scholar, Danielle Nelson, says that frogs are increasingly having trouble competing with traffic noise. Danielle's research encompasses amphibians and communications networks, espeically how the networks are disrupted by... Read more