CoastWatch Events
Events of interest to CoastWatchers, sponsored by various organizations.
Events that are sponsored or featured by Oregon Shores are highlighted.

Guided Netarts Spit Walk--Now Full

An opportunity to explore the Netarts Spit and learn about its natural history is offered by the Friends of Netarts Spit WEBS and Portland Audubon, along with Oregon State Parks. The beachwalk begins at 8 a.m. on Friday, July 1,...
Hybrid Beachgrass Survey Training

The search continues for the new hybrid beachgrass that is spreading on the Oregon and Washington coasts. CoastWatch volunteers are helping researchers at Oregon State University map the range of the new hybrid, the offspring of two...
Tidepool Clinic

Join CoastWatch for a “tidepool explorience” in Lincoln City on Sunday, July 17, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Meet at the N.W. 15th St. beach access. The free event is open to all.
After a two-year hiatus due to the...
Past Events
Beached Bird Survey Training

COASST (the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team), which organizes the beached bird survey in which CoastWatch is an Oregon partner, is holding an online training session aimed at prospective volunteers...
Saltmarsh Seminar

Oregon Shores, working through CoastWatch with funding from the city of Coos Bay, is supporting development of the Millicoma Marsh Interpretive Trail Project. When completed, this will provide an educational...
Marine Debris Survey Training

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 by Oregon...
Panel Discussion on Sand Movement

The Newport chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, during its Thursday, Jan. 14, online meeting, presents a discussion of how and why beaches change with the movement of sand and how this affects beach use. The virtual event, which takes place...
Talk on Haystack Rock

As part of the World of Haystack Rock lecture series, the Friends of Haystack Rock offer a webinar on the history of their eponymous geological feature. Elaine Trucke, director of the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum for the past ten years, will...
King Tides Project, Third Series

The final round of the 2020-2021 King Tides Project, through which volunteer photographers document the highest tides of the year, takes place Jan. 11-13, 2021. The project reveals areas currently...
Talks on Climate, Beaches, and Dunes

The final round of this winter’s King Tides Project is coming up Jan. 11-13. To provide some context for this effort by volunteer photographers to document the reach of the year’s highest tides, three of the Northwest’s leading...
Marine Debris Survey Training

Rocky Shores Public Meeting

We’re in the final weeks of the campaign to designate certain key sites under the state’s new Rocky Habitat Management Strategy. The South Coast Rocky Shores Group is holding an online public meeting Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 6 p.m., to discuss...
King Tides Project, Second Series

The second round of the 2020-2021 King Tides Project, through which volunteer photographers document the highest tides of the year, takes place Dec. 13-15, 2020. (The final high tide series which...