Environmental Resilience

 
A prototype mass timber house under construction

Housing solutions: Innovation and the mass timber promise

A solar-powered seismograph station in the Oregon Cascades

UO’s earthquake scientists help prepare for the next ‘Big One’

Interior of innovative home built by University of Oregon design team

Tallwood Design Institute completes prototype home

a hazelnut in a tree with green and yellow leaves

UO ecologists secure $2 million to boost soil health of Oregon hazelnut farms

An aerial view of the Oregon coastline with beach and forest

Building an earthquake-resilient society in Cascadia and beyond

Svetlana Maslakova, a professor at the UO, collects samples in an orange bucket while scuba diving in the ocean

Bay area exploration reveals untapped ocean worm biodiversity

Wildfire and smoke

UO experts lead research, share resources on withstanding wildfires

Leafy tree canopy with blue sky visible through a cutout shaped like a hand giving a thumbs-up sign.

Communicating numbers boosts trust in climate change science

Smoke obscuring the Portland skyline

With kids at risk, parents need better wildfire smoke warnings