The April “community” meeting of the MidCoast Watersheds Council will feature a presentation on the past and future of the Yaquina Bay estuary.
The online meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 via Zoom. Registration is required via this Zoom link.
“We will travel through time so you can visualize the estuary’s past, how it has changed, and its potential future — and we’ll talk about what these changes mean to people and wildlife that live here and use the estuary,” the council said in a news release announcing the meeting.
Leading the discussion will be Laura Brophy, the director of the estuary technical group at the Institute of Applied Ecology, Corvallis, who is researching estuary changes and management on the Oregon coast. Brophy is the lead researcher on Midcoast council’s “landward migration zone” study and has conducted extensive studies of how the tides will change in the estuary in different sea level rise scenarios. Brophy will talk about the results of the study as part of the presentation.