States that Matter
Kansas City is in this state.
What is Missouri?
This person is the current dean of CEOAS.
Who is Tuba Özkan-Haller?
The most common form of music found in animals.
What is birdsong?
The planet NASA is currently most interested in.
What is Mars?
ODOT
What is the Oregon Department of Transportation?
Many consider this U.S. region, known for its abundant freshwater and milder climate risks, to be one of the best places to relocate in the face of climate change.
What is the Great Lakes region?
The name of CEOAS' recently launched research vessel.
A sloth bear played a harmonica at this zoo in Washington, D.C.
What is the Smithsonian National Zoo?
The tilt of Uranus.
What is 98 degrees?
NADW
What is North Atlantic Deep Water?
This Oregon brand invented tater tots (and makes the best frozen hashbrowns).
What is Ore-Ida?
Currently, you would list this person as the OEAS program head/director.
Who is Lorenzo Ciannelli (but probably check with your advisor idk)?
These ocean creatures produce some of the longest, most complex songs of any animal.
What are humpback whales?
On this planet, a day lasts almost as long as our year.
What is Venus?
If you're tracking ocean eddies, sea level anomalies, or heat content from space, you might use data from this satellite altimetry program, named after a Greek god.
What is TOPEX/Poseidon?
The maximum number of "intact" dogs you are allowed to have at your home in the state of Oregon.
What is 50?
The previous name of CEOAS (hint: one letter was missing).
College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS).
The study of the music and communication by animals.
What is zoomusicology?
A type of neutron star that, if you got within 1,000 km of one, you would die because the magnetic field itself would kill you by stripping the literal electrons from your body (according to some guy on Reddit).
What is a magnetar?
This regional ocean observing system provides real-time data and forecasts for the Pacific Northwest.
What is NANOOS (Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems)?
What is Louisiana?
The number of current Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences graduate students (listed on the CEOAS website).
What is 69?
A study found that cows exposed to slow music, like R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" or Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, produced this percentage more milk than cows that were exposed to fast music, like "Pumping on your Stereo" by Supergrass and "Size of a Cow" by Wonderstuff.
What is 3%?
The size of Earth's "equatorial bulge".
What is 13 miles/21 km (or 27 miles/43 km if you account for geoid variation)?
This large herbivore shares a name with a NASA-developed project measuring atmospheric ozone and climate impacts using sensors on research aircraft.
What is moose (Michigan–Ontario Ozone Source Experiment)?