CoastWatch Events

CoastWatch intertidal field trip. Photo by Alex Derr.

Dec

Webinar on Rocky Intertidal Habitats

December 3, 2020

Coastal ecologist Silke Bachhuber in the field.

CoastWatch and Oregon shore are offering a webinar on basic rocky shore ecology, with a focus on the south coast, including Cape Arago. The webinar, “Exploring Oregon’s Rocky Intertidal Habitats,” featuring coastal ecologists Zechariah...

Dec

King Tides Presentation

December 9, 2020

Haystack Rock and Cannon Beach during a king tide.\Photo by Briana Goodwin, with flight support by Lighthawk.

The King Tides Project will be featured in the Dec. 9 online talk that is part of the World of Haystack Rock lecture series sponsored by the Friends of Haystack Rock. Speaking will...

Dec

King Tide Project, Second Series

December 13, 2020

From the King Tides archives--a January, 2020 king tide at Cape Kiwanda.\Photo by Day Tooley.

The second round of the 2020-2021 King Tides Project, through which volunteer photographers document the highest tides of the year, takes place Dec. 13-15, 2020. (The final high tide series which...

Dec

Marine Debris Survey Training

December 16, 2020, Hammond

Angela Whitlock (left) assists a student with the marine debris survey.\Photo by Ed Joyce.

One of the locations at which CoastWatch conducts our marine debris survey is at Fort Stevens State Park, just south of the Columbia’s South Jetty. More volunteers are needed to fill out the team,...

Jan

Talks on Climate, Beaches, and Dunes

January 7, 2021

King tide threatens Rockaway Beach.\Photo by Lawrence Soto.

The final round of this winter’s King Tides Project is coming up Jan. 11-13. To provide some context for this effort by volunteer photographers to document the reach of the year’s highest tides, three of the Northwest’s leading...

Jan

King Tide Project, Third Series

January 11, 2021

King tide in January, 2020, at Del Rey Beach access in Clatsop County.\Photo by Jim Stewart.

The final round of the 2020-2021 King Tides Project, through which volunteer photographers document the highest tides of the year, takes place Jan. 11-13, 2021. The project reveals areas currently...

Past Events

Jan

King Tide Wrap-Up Party, Otter Rock

January 15, 2016, Otter Rock

A King Tide at the Inn at Otter Crest. Photo courtesty of ORKingTide.

High tides and sea level rise may not be things to celebrate, but our King Tide citizen science project is. Whether or not you made it out to the shore to document the highest tides of the year (the “King Tides”), please...

Jan

Climate Change and Salmon Talk

January 9, 2016, Yachats

Rebecca Flitcroft.

Salmon are iconic in part because of the many environments they move through and the many challenges they confront. From their spawning in the headwaters of streams and rivers to the far reaches of the Pacific and back again, they cope with diverse situations. How will...

Jan

Yaquina Bay Bird Count Report

January 7, 2016

Ram Papish.

The public is invited to a talk by wildlife artist Ram Papish at the MidCoast Watersheds Council meeting on Thursday, January 7, at 6:30 p.m. in Newport, to learn about the results of the annual Yaquina Bay Christmas Bird Count and changes in bird populations that have been...

Dec

December 2015 King Tide Photo Opportunity

December 23, 2015 - December 25, 2015

This is one of three 2015 King Tides. These highest tides of the year give us a look at the future, when sea level rise will more frequently inundate low-lying areas. Oregon Shores is making a special effort to organize photographers to document the reach of the King Tides in the vicinity of...

Dec

Presentation Will Show How Birding Counts

December 17, 2015, Newport

Wood Ducks. Photo by Ram Papish.

Birders and bird-lovers all over the nation, including the Oregon coast, participate every year in the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count. This is a form of citizen science that has been running for decades.

There are a lot of active birders in the...

Dec

Marine Debris Talk, Film in Lincoln City

December 16, 2015, Lincoln City

Photo of Fawn Custer with Sea Watch plants.

CoastWatch Volunteer Coordinator Fawn Custer.

Fawn Custer, our CoastWatch volunteer coordinator, will be wrapping up the year with two citizen science training sessions. The first of these is coming up Tuesday, December 15, at the Newport Public Library (35 NW Nye St.), from 6-7 p.m., or as...

Dec

Marine Debris Talk, Film in Newport

December 15, 2015, Newport

CoastWatch Volunteer Coordinator Fawn Custer.

Nov

November 2015 King Tide Photo Opportunity

November 24, 2015 - November 27, 2015

Nov

Plant Violets So the Silverspot Won’t Be Blue

November 20, 2015 - November 21, 2015

Help to invite the all-too-rare Oregon silverspot butterfly back to Clatsop County by joining a special project to plant violets on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20-21, at various sites on the Clatsop Plains between Gearhart and Warrenton.

This is the culmination of a 10-year project, led by the...

Nov

Annual Meeting to Feature Overview of Oregon’s Ocean

November 7, 2015, Lincoln City

Photo of Bill Peterson with graduate students on the research vessel Elakha.

Oceanographer Bill Peterson will address the Oregon Shores annual meeting on Nov. 7 in Lincoln City. Peterson will survey the State of Oregon's Ocean. His presentation will consider the current El Nino, changes in ocean conditions such as "The Blob"; climate change impacts such as ocean...

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