Climate Events
Apr
27
Talk on Coast and Climate Change
April 27, 2019, Lincoln City
Climate change is expected to drive stronger storms onto the Oregon coast.\Photo by Bonnie Moreland.
Chuck Willer, director of the Coast Range Association, will speak on the “Oregon Coast in the Era of Climate Crisis at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, in Lincoln City’s Driftwood Public Library...
Past Events
Dec
19
Meeting on Forest Carbon
December 19, 2017, Salem
Elliott State Forest, a store of carbon in its intact state.\Photo courtesy of OLCV.
The Oregon Global Warming Commission’s Forest Carbon Task Force will meet Tuesday, Dec. 19. The public meeting will be held from 9 a.m. to noon in Conference Room Meitner at the Oregon Department of Energy...
Dec
16
King Tide Talk and CoastWatch Clinic
December 16, 2017, Newport
Shoreline between Beverly Beach and Otter Rock.\Photo courtesy of ODFW.
Our CoastWatch volunteer coordinator, Fawn Custer, invites one and all to join her for a session that will combine basic CoastWatch training with some specifics on our King Tide citizen science project, as well as other...
Dec
15
CoastWatch Clinic and Citizen Science Training
December 15, 2017, Port Orford
Port Orford Field Station.
Dawn Goley, a professor of zoology at Humboldt State University and coordinator of the northern California branch of the marine mammal stranding network, and Fawn Custer, CoastWatch’s volunteer coordinator, will meet with all comers on Friday, Dec. 15, in Oregon...
Dec
14
CoastWatch Clinic
December 14, 2017, Gold Beach
Fawn Custer, teaching on the shoreline.\Photo by Alex Derr.
Fawn Custer, CoastWatch’s volunteer coordinator, will meet with all comers on Friday, December 14, in Oregon State University’s Gold Beach Extension Office (29390 Ellensburg Ave., also known as Highway 101) from 3 p.m. through about...
Dec
14
King Tide Talk and Training
December 14, 2017, Bandon
King Tide at Bandon's Coquille Point.\Photo by Rick Poecker.
Round three of this winter’s King Tide Project takes place Jan. 2-4. Join Fawn Custer, CoastWatch’s volunteer coordinator, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., in the Sprague Room of the Bandon City Library (1204 11th St.,...
Dec
7
Two Talks on Sea Level Rise
December 7, 2017, Newport
Yaquina River swamped by King Tide.\Photo courtesy of Wetlands Conservancy.
Fawn Custer, CoastWatch’s volunteer coordinator, will join Fran Recht, habitat program manager for the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, to discuss potential impacts of sea level rise to the Oregon coast...
Dec
5
King Tide Rendezvous
December 5, 2017, Newport
Meg Reed surveying riprap in the field.
The year’s second set of highest high tides, and thus the second round of our King Tide Project, is coming up Dec. 3-5. Volunteer photographers can participate anywhere, but if you will be on the central coast and would like some companionship, moral...
Dec
5
King Tide Project, Second Series
December 5, 2017
King Tide at Wakonda Beach.\Photo by Woody Dukes.
The second round of the 2017-2018 King Tide Project, through which volunteer photographers document the highest tides of the year, takes place December 3-5. (The final round is set for January 2-4, 2018.) The project reveals areas...
Dec
4
King Tide Meet-Up.
December 4, 2017, Pacific City
Cape Kiwanda at King Tide.\Photo courtesy of Oregon King Tides.
The year’s second set of highest high tides, and thus the second round of our King Tide Project, is coming up December 3-5. Photographers can participate anywhere—photos documenting the highest reach of the highest tides at any...
Dec
3
King Tide Meet-Up.
December 3, 2017, Cannon Beach
Wreck of the Peter Iredale at King Tide.\Photo courtesy of Oregon King Tides.
The year’s second set of highest high tides, and thus the second round of our King Tide Project, is coming up December 3-5. Photographers can participate anywhere—photos documenting the highest reach of the...