Pacific Coast Sea-Level Rise Workshops

Background:

The USGS Western Ecological Research Center has worked with federal, Tribal, state, and local partners to establish a network of study sites in 17 estuaries along the Pacific Coast, examining the climate change effects on tidal wetlands with high-quality local data, downscaled models, and projected storm effects.

The project's lead scientists have convened these partners in the coastal study site areas in locally hosted workshops to:

• Learn about site-specific baseline data and modeling results, coast-wide trends, and data gaps;
• Help identify how local results may be incorporated into conservation, planning, and adaptation case studies; and
• Provide feedback on a coast-wide science needs assessment.

Information learned from workshop participants is being shared with the North Pacific and California LCCs.

More about this project can be found on these webpages:

• Main Research Page
• Climate Commons page for the Ca LCC Project "Sea-level rise modeling across the California salt marsh gradient"

Workshop Materials

• Final Report on the Workshops
• USGS Fact Sheet about the project and workshops
• Workshop Sample Agenda
• North Pacific LCC Brochure
• Siletz Bay Slide Presentation

Workshop Dates:

• Nisqually River, October 21-22, 2014
• Willapa Bay, November 20-21, 2014
• Siletz Bay, Newport, OR, November 13, 2014
• Humboldt Bay, October 2-3, 2014
• San Pablo Bay, September 25, 2014
• Bolinas Lagoon, December 10-11, 2014
• Seal Beach, January, 2015 (TBD)
• Tijuana Slough, December 15-15, 2014

For more information, contact:
Karen Thorne, PhD
Research Ecologist
USGS Western Ecological Research Center
kthorne@usgs.gov