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May
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Tsunami Resilience Lecture
May 24, 2018, Newport
Photo by Portland Photographic Society
Preparing the region for the inevitable "Big One"--a tectonic earthquake and subsequent tsunami--will be the subject of a talk by Meg Reed, Coastal Shores Specialist with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, on Thursday, May 24,...
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May
19
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Discover Oceanside Tidepools
May 19, 2018, Tillamook
Sea stars at Cannon Beach. | Photo by Peterson Photography
What amazing creatures are lurking at the water’s edge? Visit Oceanside for this event, and you will see.
Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS staff and volunteers will be onsite in the tide pools helping visitors understand what is living...
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May
19
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Brown Pelican Survey
May 19, 2018
Brown Pelicans.\Photo by Roy Lowe.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is teaming with various partners along the West Coast—here in Oregon, it’s Portland Audubon—to conduct the semi-annual Brown Pelican Survey. The first of this year’s surveys takes place May 19 (the second will be Sept....
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May
18
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Ecology and Evolution Seminar
May 18, 2018, Charleston
Lettuce sea slug, a saccoglossan.\Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology's Spring 2018 Seminar Series hosts Serena Caplins, a PhD candidate in the University of California Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute, to describe her thesis work relating...
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May
17
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Fishery Lecture
May 17, 2018, Newport
Oregon kelp forest. | Photo by Chad King
The Hatfield Marine Science Center is hosting a lecture titled: Development of tools to integrate of spatial processes into fishery stock assessment and management frameworks.
The main speaker for this lecture will be Katelyn Bosley. To learn more, ...
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May
12
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Migratory Bird Day BioBlitz
May 12, 2018, Yachats
Wilson's Warbler may be passing through.\Photo by Jeremy Cohen.
Saturday, May 12 is World Migratory Bird Day, and it is being observed at Cape Perpetua with a special, bird-oriented BioBlitz to inventory migrants passing through the area on that day. (A BioBlitz involves a concerted,...
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May
12
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Migratory Bird Day Outing
May 12, 2018, Netarts
Tufted Puffin in flight. | Photo by Jeremy Cohen
Discover the amazing life histories of the aquatic birds of Netarts Bay at the next Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS program, Migratory Bird Day Outing: Coastal and Pelagic Birds. Presented in partnership with Oregon State Parks, everyone...
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May
11
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Seminar on Shells
May 11, 2018, Charleston
Geerat Vermeij, UC Davis Professor. | Photo from UC Davis
The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology's Spring 2018 Seminar Series features Geerat Vermeij, a distinguished professor at UC Davis. His seminar is entitled, "Shells: an ecological and historical window on the marine world." This 7...
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May
8
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Marine Debris Art Workshop
May 8, 2018, Portland
Marine debris art from Haystack Rock Trash Talk Project. | Photo from HRAP
Pooka Rice from the Haystack Rock Trash Talk Project, will the be the guest speaker for the next monthly meeting of tjhe Portland Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, May 8 from 7-9 p.m. The event, free and open to...
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May
6
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Black Oystercatcher Survey Training
May 6, 2018, Newport
Black Oystercatcher and chicks.\Photo by Heather Roskelley.
The annual volunteer survey of Black Oystercatchers is coming up. A training for prospective volunteers is coming up Sunday, May 6, 3 to 5:30 p.m., at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s meeting room (2127 S.E. Marine Science...