Climate Events
Mar
1
Virtual Environmental Conference
March 1, 2021
Yaquina River during a king tide, a preview of climate-change-related flooding.\Photo by Rena Olson, with support from Lighthawk.
The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), founded and run by University of Oregon law students, has evolved into the state’s most broad-based...
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
Dec
19
Talk on Siletz Basin Projects
December 19, 2017, Siletz
A king tide washes the bank of the Siletz River.\Photo by Meg Reed.
At its quarterly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 19, the Siletz Watershed Council will host a talk on two projects taking place within the Siletz River’s watershed. The event, free and open to everyone, begins at 6:30 p.m. in the...
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...