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Past Events
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Seminar on Climate and Estuaries
September 1, 2020
Caitlin Magel at work in the field.
Oregon State University’s Department of Integrative Biology offers a chance to listen in on academia while learning something about how climate change and other impacts may affect our estuaries. A thesis defense seminar by PhD candidate Caitlin Magel...
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Aug
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Cape Perpetua Volunteer Appreciation
August 27, 2020
Cape Perpetua from the air.\Photo by Alex Derr, with support from Lighthawk.
The annual Cape Perpetua Volunteer Appreciation Event celebrates the wide range of voluntary activity focused on that stretch of Oregon’s shore (including the monitoring done by CoastWatchers). It is usually a...
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Aug
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Presentation on Ocean Science History
August 27, 2020
Dr. Carmel Finley.
The Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) has moved its weekly seminar series online. This week’s virtual offering, free and open to the public, takes place on Thursday, Aug. 27, 3:30 p.m.
The speaker is Carmel Finley, an historian of science at Oregon State University. ...
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Aug
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Sea Otter Webinar
August 26, 2020
Sea otter "raft."\Photo by David Sidle.
The Elakha Alliance is sponsoring a webinar on “The Legal and Economic Considerations of Sea Otter Reintroduction” on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 6 p.m. Speakers will be Bob Bailey, the Alliance’s president, and Michele Zwartjes, a biologist with the...
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Aug
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Webinar on Waves and Beaches
August 25, 2020
Waves at sunset washing Cape Perpetua.\Photo by Tara Dubois.
The Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve Collaborative, unable to gather audiences physically, is offering an online exploration of the shore with a webinar entitled “Waves, Sand, and Beaches: The Constantly Changing Shoreline.” Free...
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Aug
17
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Marine Debris Survey Training
August 17, 2020, Hammond
Marine debris collected during a previous survey at Fort Stevens.\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, headed...
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Aug
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Video Tour of Heceta Bank
August 13, 2020
Explore the undersea habitat off Oregon's shore with new film.\Photo courtesy of ODFW.
The public is invited to a special screening of Oregon State Productions’ film “Heceta Bank: Orgon’s Hidden Wonder,” on Thursday, Aug. 13, 6 p.m. The virtual event includes a panel discussion and...
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Aug
6
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Lampreys Online
August 6, 2020
Laurie Weitkamp.
The Hatfield Marine Science Center’s research seminar series has moved online, but is still going strong. On Thursday, Aug. 6, 3:30 p.m., the speaker will be Laurie Weitkamp, a Research Fisheries Biologist with the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
Her topic: “All...
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Jul
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Meeting on Ocean Acidification
July 31, 2020
Testing ocean waters in an Oregon marine reserve.\Photo courtesy of ODFW.
Oregon’s Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Council will hold its summer meeting on Friday, July 31, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
At present, the plan is still to hold an in-person meeting, place to be determined. Watch this...
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Webinar on Ocean, Climate & Plastics
July 30, 2020
Marine debris at sea.\Photo by Kip Evans.
he Healthy Oceans Coalition and the Inland Ocean Coalition invite everyone to a new webinar series, Ocean Climate Conversations, where they dive into issues at the intersections of climate change, the ocean, and society. The inaugural webinar,...