Oregon Beaches Forever’s King Tide webinar with Rhiannon Bezore

About the event

Oregon has participated in King Tides Project, an international citizen science, effort since 2010. The Oregon Coastal Management Program (OCMP), the CoastWatch Program of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, and local partners, including the Oregon Coast Visitors Association, Oregon Sea Grant and others support this project. The webinar will go over the history of the project in Oregon, how it informs about sea level rise, how to participate, and how to navigate the website at www.oregonkingtides.net. Documenting the highest annual reach of the tides with photos tells us about areas of the natural and built environments which are subject to erosion and flooding as well as what to expect as sea level rises.

Bio: Rhiannon Bezore is the Coastal Shores Specialist with the Oregon Coastal Management Program, which is part of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development. In this role, she works with local coastal communities to better understand coastal hazards and ways to improve their resilience using the state’s coastal planning goals. She has a Master’s Degree and PhD in Coastal Geology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Melbourne in Australia. Before coming to Oregon, she worked with Virginia Sea Grant and Texas A&M University to help communities with their coastal resilience goals. She now lives in Lincoln City with her two dogs and two cats. This is Rhiannon’s third year working on the Oregon King Tides Project.