H2ONCoast

It’s been a little while since I’ve had time to post to H2ONC. So here’s a quick update on a few newsworthy items that North Coaster’s and other readers should pay attention to:
Due to an amazingly sharp drop off in returning fish, the Sacramento Chinook salmon fishery has been closed from fishing, essentially closing [...]

For the communities on the North Coast that are fishery or sea-life dependent, comes some disturbing news out of researchers at the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) which includes OSU. This particular posting is a reminder that climate change impacts cannot be easily predicted. The original OSU press-release reposted below [...]

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 [...]

Wave energy has made a lot of national press lately. The media attention the technology has grabbed is not without merit, as some say it promises a real alternative to standard (problematic) sources such as coal, natural gas, hydroelectric and petroleum. However, like most of the alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, and geothermal), there [...]

Recently, I discovered a new (old) resource for managers and others interested in PNW estuaries published by OSU Sea Grant. The report of the Pacific Northwest Coastal Ecosystems Regional Study (PNCERS) titled Estuary Management in the Pacific Northwest was published by OSU Sea Grant in 2003. The publication received little attention and unfortunately [...]

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) just released an important–if not alarming–report on water quality at beaches August 7th. The report claims that the water at American beaches was unsafe for swimming a record number of days last year, according to the 17th annual beach water quality report. Using data collected from the U.S. [...]