Predicting Ecosystem Changes - US News and World Report

"António Baptista, a professor in the division of environmental and biomolecular systems at Oregon Health & Science University...directs the Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction, whose goal is to study environments at the sea-land interface, and disseminate objective information to regulatory agencies, local governments and other policymakers, as well as to the public, to help in their decision-making....The center, currently in its sixth year, is based at the Oregon Health & Science University, with a wide range of academic and non-academic partners....Supporting the Columbia River estuary research is a system the center calls a “collaboratory,” which brings together sensors and computer models with the people who need the information these technologies produce. The sensor and models’ predictions flow to and from an open-access database, which is available to scientists, managers and laypeople...."