CoastWatch Events
Events of interest to CoastWatchers, sponsored by various organizations.
Events that are sponsored or featured by Oregon Shores are highlighted.
CoastWatch intertidal field trip. Photo by Alex Derr.
Jul
1
Guided Netarts Spit Walk--Now Full
July 1, 2022, Netarts
Netarts Spit from Anderson's viewpoint.\Photo by Kirt Edblom.
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,...
Jul
9
Hybrid Beachgrass Survey Training
July 9, 2022, Warrenton
A patch of the hybrid beachgrass.\Photo by Rebecca Mostow.
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...
Jul
17
Tidepool Clinic
July 17, 2022, Lincoln City
Fawn Custer leading an earlier tidepool "explorience."\Photo by Alex Derr.
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
Jan
30
Beached Bird Survey Training
January 30, 2021
COASST beached bird survey in progress at Cannon Beach.\Photo by Melissa Keyser.
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...
Jan
21
Saltmarsh Seminar
January 21, 2021
Millicoma Marsh.\Photo courtesy of Millicoma Marsh Interpretive Trail Project.
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...
Jan
20
Marine Debris Survey Training
January 20, 2021, Hammond
Marine debris collected during a Fort Stevens survey.\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 by Oregon...
Jan
14
Panel Discussion on Sand Movement
January 14, 2021
Newport's Agate Beach.\Photo by JLH Photography.
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...
Jan
13
Talk on Haystack Rock
January 13, 2021
Haystack Rock.\Photo by Sonja Peterson.
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...
Jan
11
King Tides Project, Third Series
January 11, 2021
King tide in January, 2020, at Del Rey Beach access in Clatsop County.\Photo by Jim Stewart.
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...
Jan
7
Talks on Climate, Beaches, and Dunes
January 7, 2021
King tide threatens Rockaway Beach.\Photo by Lawrence Soto.
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...
Dec
16
Marine Debris Survey Training
December 16, 2020, Hammond
Angela Whitlock (left) assists a student with the marine debris survey.\Photo by Ed Joyce.
Dec
15
Rocky Shores Public Meeting
December 15, 2020
Base of Cape Blanco.\Photo by Randy Scholten.
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...
Dec
14
King Tides Project, Second Series
December 14, 2020
From the King Tides archives--a January, 2020 king tide at Cape Kiwanda.\Photo by Day Tooley.
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...