YACHATS – The Cape Perpetua Collaborative has announced eight weeks of online presentations for its winter 2022 speaker’s series.
Presentations will include a special focus on ocean acidification, transient killer whales, Oregon’s red abalone, the Tahkenitch landing site, Pacific salmon, sea stars, kelp and whales.
All one-hour events are free and held virtually on Zoom at 10 a.m. Saturdays starting Jan. 8 and going through March 12. The full series schedule and registration information can be viewed here.
The scheduled webinars in the series include:
- Saturday, Jan. 8: Oregon shellfish in an acidified ocean by Steve Rumrill, shellfish program leader for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife;
- Saturday, Jan. 15: Ecological aspects of transient killer whales off the California and Oregon coasts by Josh McInnes, marine ecologist and marine mammal researcher;
- Saturday, Jan. 22: Oregon’s red abalone by Kendall Smith, master’s student in the marine biology graduate program at the University of Oregon;
- Saturday, Jan. 29: Early occupation at the Tahkenitch Landing Site and surrounding area by Molly Kirkpatrick, archaeologist with the Siuslaw National Forest;
- Saturday, Feb. 5: Climate and Pacific salmon in coastal Oregon by Rebecca Flitcroft, research fish biologist with the U.S. Forest Service;
- Saturday, Feb. 12: Recovery of sea star populations by Melissa Miner, University of Santa Cruz;
- Saturday, March 5: Whales and the decline of kelp forests by Lisa Hildebrand, a graduate student at Oregon State University;
- Saturday, March 12: A Deeper Understanding of Oregon’s Marine Reserves by Cristen Don, ODFW marine reserves program leader.
The Cape Perpetua Collaborative was formed in 2017 by a wide range of state and federal agencies, local and state conservation groups and others to promote and and sea information and conservation in the Cape Perpetua area.