by admin | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Catherine Corbett, Lower Columbia Estuary PartnershipThe importance of cold water refuges to Pacific salmon and steelhead migrating through the Columbia River Basin recently has been well documented. Summertime water temperatures in the mainstem Columbia River...
by admin | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
By John Rozum and Becky Lunde, NOAA Office for Coastal Management After a hot, dry summer, Washington communities were beset with a series of wildfires. Now Western Washington prepares for rain and catastrophic flooding. Along the coast, sea level continues to rise...
by admin | Oct 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Tye Ferrell, Resilience Collaborative NW Earlier this year, I joined a team from the William D. Ruckelshaus Center to assess resilience efforts on the Washington State coast.* We knew it would be important to ask assessment participants how they defined resilience....
by admin | Oct 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Nicole Faghin, Washington Sea Grant When Island County staff recently evaluated where to spend public dollars for coastal restoration projects, they realized they needed more information on how each of the potential sites might be affected by future coastal...
by admin | Sep 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Nicole Faghin, Washington Sea Grant When Washington Sea Grant and the Washington Department of Ecology embarked on the Washington Coastal Resilience Project (WCRP) in 2016, we wanted to know how we could rapidly increase local governments’ ability to support...
by admin | Sep 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Paul Cereghino, NOAA Restoration Center In our green coastal crescent, around a billion liters of water falls on every square kilometer of land. It would form a waist-deep lake to the horizon, if it didn’t run to the sea. In the mountains, the deluge would cover...
by admin | Aug 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Tina Whitman, Science Director, Friends of the San JuansIn San Juan County Washington, private shoreline property owners are critical partners in efforts to protect nearshore habitat while addressing the impacts of sea level rise. This is because over 90% of San...
by admin | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Lili Bastian, Marc Hershman Marine Policy Fellow at the Washington State Department of EcologyIn June, Washington Sea Grant’s Ian Miller gave an introduction to the first objective of the Washington Coastal Resilience Project (WCRP): developing and communicating...
by admin | Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
My decision to join the CHRN is a matter of “unfinished business.” I was a glaciologist with NASA for my entire career, based at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and conducting research on the dynamics of ice sheets, both using a variety of...
by admin | Jun 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Ian Miller, Washington Sea GrantA few months ago Washington Sea Grant’s Paul Dye put together a blog post for the CHRN describing the conceptual underpinnings of the Washington Coastal Resilience Project (WCRP). Now that the WCRP is a bit more than a year...
