  Ecologist Stewart Schultz
The talk, like all CoastWatch training sessions, is free and open to all. CoastWatchers are urged to invite along others who have an interest in shoreline science.
Stewart Schultz is the author of The Northwest Coast: A Natural History, a widely respected, ecologically organized survey of Oregon coastal geology, habitats and species. He is currently doing research in plant evolutionary genetics and marine ecology as a professor at the University of Zadar, Croatia (where he moved, after many years at the University of Miami and, before that, the University of Oregon, in order to be closer to his wife’s family). He visits his family home in Rockaway each summer, and teaches a course at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston.
His presentation in Manzanita will provide an overview of coastal geology and the formation of beaches and dunes, and describe the natural communities of our sandy shoreline areas. He will also touch on such topics as European beachgrass and other invasive species, and the likely effects of climate change on our beaches.
The talk will be followed by a beachwalk. Please make plans to join us.
 Contact: Phillip Johnson, CoastWatch Director, (503) 238-4450, or EMAIL |