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The good folks at National Geographic have put out a well done piece synthesizing a smattering of the latest science, economics and politics that wrap around the issue of a drying western United States. This is serious stuff and worth a read even for water logged North Coasters’. The article’s main premise: water management [...]
The U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S. AID) has been bashed on both the left and right for aiding and abetting some painfully bad episodes in international development. Regardless of the critics’ stances, the agency also does some fine things with our tax dollars, including assisting countries in managing coastal and freshwater systems in an [...]
For those of us concerned with invasive species in the PNW, examples of impacts, management and prevention abound. The following story is a striking example of why invasive species are such an urgent issue locally and globally: they very often generate serious but completely unforeseen consequences for the ecosystems in which they become established. [...]
Join the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership and Oregon State University for an evening presentation on water quality in the Tillamook Bay basin, Thursday, January 17th, 6:00 PM at the United Methodist Church (3808 12th Street, Tillamook). Featured speakers include Dr. Katherine Field of OSU’s Microbiology Department and York Johnson of the TEP. Dr. Field will highlight [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center has released its forecast for the spring 2008 season. As La Niña continues in the western equatorial Pacific with cooler than normal sea surface temperatures, the winds will continue to stall in the western Pacific, likely bringing drought to southern North America and wetter [...]
While I was away on holiday vacation, Michael Harte, director of OSU’s Marine Resources Management program, delivered an interesting talk at the American Geophysical Union about scaling down climate change work to the local-level. Here are a couple of snippets:
“As researchers, we need to better tailor our science and advice to the needs of [...]
Oregon Sea Grant Extension's Rob Emanuel serves the North Coast of Oregon from the offices of the Tillamook and Clatsop county Extension offices. He provides water- and watershed-related education, training, and technical assistance to citizens, property owners, businesses, community leaders, and organizations.