Climate Events
Mar
5
Global Warming Commission Meets
March 5, 2021
Eroding shoreline south of Fishing Rock.\Photo by Linda Fink.
The Oregon Global Warming Commission will meet Friday, March 5, from 1 to 5 p.m. online.
During the meeting, the Commission will discuss policy options associated with establishing a natural and working lands goal. The Commission...
Mar
23
Offshore Wind Energy Webinar
March 23, 2021
Offshore wind energy development.\Photo courtesy of NOAA.
Proposals for wind energy development off Oregon’s coast have been made in the past, but haven’t gone anywhere. But planning for a potential wind power future in taking place. Wind power is a renewable energy source and doesn’t...
Mar
30
Panel on Climate-Resilient Future
March 30, 2021
Climate protest.\Photo courtesy of Compact.
The Climate Impacts Group, based at the University of Washington, is celebrating its 25th year with a series of talks. The CIG, a pioneering effort to study the effects of climate at the local level when it began, studies likely impacts of climate...
Apr
6
Northwest Climate Conference
April 6, 2021
Ona Beach during a king tide surge, a preview of sea level rise due to climate change.\Photo by Rena Olson, with support fom Lighthawk.
The 11th annual Northwest Climate Conference, which in the normal course of things would have taken place in October, 2020, has been moved to Tuesday, April...
Apr
14
Talk on Climate and Conservation
April 14, 2021
Onion Peak in the north coast rainforest reserve.\Photo by Tom Horning.
The “World of Haystack Rock” speaker series will take a look at how climate change may affect the coast with a talk on “Climate Change and Conservation” on Wednesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. The virtual presentation is free...
Past Events
Nov
6
King Tide Rendezvous
November 6, 2017, Yachats
The 804 Trail at Yachats covered in sea foam.\Photo by Rena Martin.
The year’s first set of highest high tides, and thus the first round of our King Tide Project, is coming up Nov. 4-6. Volunteer photographers can participate anywhere, but if you will be on the central coast and would like...
Nov
5
King Tide Rendezvous
November 5, 2017, Depoe Bay
Depoe Bay from the air.\Photo by Alex Derr.
The year’s first set of highest high tides, and thus the first round of our King Tide Project, is coming up Nov. 4-6. Volunteer photographers can participate anywhere, but if you will be on the central coast and would like some companionship,...
Nov
4
King Tide Field Trip
November 4, 2017, Charleston
King Tide floods Charleston shoreline.\Photo by Raincoast.
On the first day of this winter’s first series of king tides, the King Tide Project is offering a guided field trip, giving volunteer photographers an orientation to the citizen science project and a tour of promising locations for...
Nov
4
King Tide Project, First Series
November 4, 2017 - November 6, 2017
King Tide at Horsfall Beach near North Bend.\Photo by Susan Ferguson.
The first round of the 2017-2018 King Tide Project, through which volunteer photographers document the highest tides of the year, takes place November 4-6. (The other two high-tide series the project will cover will be...
Nov
3
Climate Change Talk
November 3, 2017, Port Orford
King Tide at Agate Beach and Garrison Lake in Port Orford.\Photo courtesy of Oregon King Tides.
Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury will be giving a talk about the issue of climate change at the Port Orford Library (1421 Oregon St.), from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3. The...
Oct
16
Oregon Outdoor Summit
October 16, 2017 - October 17, 2017, Corvalis
Outdoor Summit. | Courtesy of OSU
The Outdoor Summit is a two-day adventure, convened by Oregon State University Outreach & Engagement, Travel Oregon, and Oregon State Parks. The summit will engage community leaders, outdoor enthusiasts and recreation businesses, public agencies, students,...
Oct
15
Pollinator Conservation Talk
October 15, 2017, Yachats
On Sunday October 15 at 2 p.m. in the Yachats Commons, Laren Leland is giving a talk about native bee conservation and how you can help pollinators in your own yard and on a larger scale. In addition to sharing her experience gardening for pollinators in Portland and in the Yachats River...
Oct
13
Coastline Habitat Change Seminar
October 13, 2017, Charleston
Pacific Rim National Park in British Columbia, Canada. | Photo by Jack Aloha
As part of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology’s Fall Seminar Series, Margot Hessing-Lewis from the Hakai Institute (BC Canada) will speak on, “Stressed and disturbed; coastline complexity and biodiversity...
Oct
10
Northwest Climate Conference
October 10, 2017 - October 11, 2017, Tacoma
Storm surge waves during a King Tide. Photo by Jenny Green.
The 8th Annual Northwest Climate Conference will take place Oct. 10-11 at the Tacoma Convention Center in Tacoma, Washington. The conference annually brings together more than 300 researchers and practitioners from around the...
Oct
1
Climate Leadership Training
October 1, 2017, Newport
King Tide swamps Highway 126.\Photo by Greg Reed.
Deb Lev, a natural resource professional and climate leader trained by Al Gore’s Climate Reality project, will give a talk on “Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 1, in the South Beach Community Center (3024...