Cape Perpetua Collaborative announces eight weeks of online presentations for its winter speaker’s series

The jutting headlands of Cape Perpetua south of Yachats form the center of the state’s largest marine reserve established more than a decade ago.

 

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.

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