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OSU making waves with new ocean-simulating pool.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-AUG-03
Format: Online - approximately 901 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: OSU making waves with new ocean-simulating pool.(Environment)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard

CORVALLIS - What's bigger than a basketball court, able to create killer waves at a single keystroke, and way cooler than a slide rule?

It's the Oregon State University College of Engineering's latest research tool, the Tsunami Wave Basin.

Built with a $4.8 million National Science Foundation Grant, the basin is the largest in the world. The killer wave simulator will be used by researchers studying hazard mitigation for swelling numbers of coastal residents worldwide.

More than half of all U.S. residents now live within 50 miles of a coastline, said Dan Cox, director of OSU's O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. Elsewhere in the world, the percentage is even higher - which helps explain why earthquake-triggered tsunamis killed more than 50,000 people in the past century.

Cox will be...

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