Climate Change
Jennifer Alexander
Featured Resources
Oregon Season Tracker
Oregon Season Tracker (OST) is a project of Oregon State University that aims to link natural resource managers, educators, researchers and others in the community to the science they use through collaborative citizen science. We hope that together the OST partnership can improve understanding of weather patterns and how plants and other living things in our ecosystem respond and adapt to regional variations in climate conditions by gathering data across diverse Oregon landscapes.
Coastal Climate Change: How soon do we have to think differently? [online video]
For those involved in or concerned about issues that adapting to climate change presents for coastal areas.
Latest Resources
Changing Ocean Chemistry
This material is a comprehensive high school curriculum on ocean acidification's cause, impacts and solutions.
Tree School Clackamas teaches love for the land
Educational event draws hundreds from woodland community in Clackamas County and beyond.
Seeing Climate Change in Bugs and Salmon
There are many ways to measure climate change. In northeast Oregon, scientists are investigating aquatic insects and how land management around waterways could potentially help or hinder salmon, which spawn in the streams.Latest News
Climate change negatively affects waterbirds in the American West
Mar 15, 2019
New research shows that recent climate change is having profound effects on wetlands across the American West – affecting birds that use these wetlands for breeding, migration and wintering.
Climate modeling shows significant shifts in 21st century Pacific Northwest coastal forest vegetation
Feb 5, 2019
A changing climate in the 21st century will significantly alter the coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest, according to modeling by Oregon State University researchers.
Blend of warmer water, chemical exposure influence gene expression across generations in a coastal fish
Jan 31, 2019
Warmer water temperatures, combined with low-level exposure to chemicals, influence the expression of genes in the offspring of an abundant North American fish species.
