Sponaugle-Cowen Lab

We had a blast at @HatfieldMSC Marine Science Day, sharing all about plankton and sampling technologies with visitors!

New lab paper published! A new take on an older coral reef fish data set! In this collaborative effort, “terrestrial” modelers re-analyzed an older field dataset to provide insight into how juvenile coral reef fish behavior influences their early survival. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

NEW Disentangling plankton community structure on the OR and CA coast using gene sequencing and plankton imaging #DeepLearning #BigData @OSUPlanktonLab @HatfieldMSC @OSUIB @OSUCEOAS @OSUScience @MSI_OregonState @SutherlandLab @bluewaterlab @FrontMarineSci tinyurl.com/2hwwh5mb

Plankton Lab grad students Luke Bobay and Elena Conser shared their research at @PICES_MarineSci conference this week.

The Pittsburg Supercomputing Center Bridges-2 system allows us to process our plankton imagery data quickly and efficiently. Read more: psc.edu/oregon-state-s…

Otter Rock SMURF Survey on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=1aXZqX…

SMURFs help scientists survey juvenile rockfish at Oregon Marine Reserves New @MyODFW news release about collaborative work our team does using SMURFs (Standardized Monitoring Units for the Recruitment of Fishes) to capture juvenile groundfish nearshore dfw.state.or.us/news/2023/08_A…

By photographing more than 170 types of plankton across our planet’s oceans, researchers aboard the Marcus G. Langseth vessel seek to understand these marine drifters more. 🪼

Our 2023 REU student, Sadie Lorenz, freshly back from sea, presented on the research she conducted with us this summer. She travels back to UNH in a few days…we’ll miss her cheerful outlook and enthusiasm! Thanks for all your work and for sharing your positive energy, Sadie!

Post-doctoral scholar position open for application in the OSU Plankton Ecology Lab!

SPECTRA: It’s a wrap! <post by Su Sponaugle, OSU Professor and SPECTRA co-PI) Yesterday the R/V Sally Ride glided gracefully into port. The science team celebrated the end of the cruise, and Chief Scientist (mustachioed) Bob Cowen by surprising him with their “own” facial hair!

The last SPECTRA* cruise begins! Against a foggy backdrop, the R/V Sally Ride sails out of Yaquina Bay to begin work in the northern California Current. *SPECTRA is short for “Plankton Size Spectra and Trophic Links in a Dynamic Ocean,” an NSF-funded project.

A plankton scientist and an IT guy walk onto a ship ... and produce super cool science! blog.westerndigital.com/edge-computing…

Neat new paper out with @OSUPlanktonLab Edge computing at sea: high-throughput classification of in-situ plankton imagery for adaptive sampling #plankton #EdgeComputing #MachineLearning #oceanography #oceantechnology frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Researchgate: beav.es/Twz

Earlier this week, Plankton Ecology Lab graduate student @conser_elena teamed up with @OregonSeaGrant STEM-at-sea to collect recently metamorphosed English sole for her dissertation research, with the help of high school students from Newport and Sheridan schools.

❗️New lab paper out in ICES Journal of Marine Science from lab alumna @kelsey_swieca academic.oup.com/icesjms/advanc…

Come visit “plankton paradise” at the HMSC visitors center, today from 10-4

Save the Date! Marine Science Day is Sat., April 8, 10 - 4. Everyone is invited to our annual science fair & open house w/ 40+ marine science programs & labs based at Hatfield. This hands-on event is FREE, family-friendly & ideal for lifelong learners. hmsc.oregonstate.edu/marine-science…

❕New lab paper❕ Research from lab alumnus Dr. Will Fennie explores relationships between anomalous temperatures and early life stages of black rockfish in the Northern California Current nature.com/articles/s4159…

❗️❕New publication by our own Dr. @wilsomegalodon on otolith microstructure in Cabezon (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…