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Join us for our first free brown bag lunch exploring Our Coastal Climate: Rising Waters in West Marin. This online meeting will explore rising sea levels, emergent groundwater, and ways to build coastal resilience through local action and planning with speakers Dr. Charles Lester, Director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center in the Marine Science Institute at University of California Santa Barbara; Dr. Kevin Befus, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences at University of Arkansas; and Dr. Patrick Barnard, Research Director for the Climate Impacts and Coastal Processes Team, United States Geological Survey.
Register today to get the Zoom link and reminders.
The Environmental Action Committee of West Marin’s (EAC) nonprofit mission and values focus on protecting and sustaining the lands, waters, and biodiversity of West Marin through advocacy, education and engagement opportunities.
The climate crisis presents an immediate need for action. Addressing the environmental hazards associated with the impacts of a changing climate and building community resilience for Marin’s coastal communities is on the forefront of our work. These are complicated issues and there is a need for additional public outreach and education for our communities as we collectively make decisions that have lasting impacts for a generation.
We invite you to join us for a series of educational webinars designed to dive deep into the impacts of our changing climate, so together we can act for our future.
Stay tuned for upcoming webinars, here.
Dr. Charles Lester is the director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center in the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara, where he researches, writes, and advises about sea level rise, coastal resilience, and other aspects of coastal law, policy and management. Charles previously worked for the State of California and the California Coastal Commission for twenty years, including serving as the agency’s fourth executive director from 2011 to 2016. Previously, Charles was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he taught environmental law and policy, with a focus on public lands governance and coastal zone management. He speaks regularly on coastal management, adaptation and resilience, including recently as part of a Congressional briefing on west coast resilience.
Dr. Patrick Barnard has been a Research Geologist with the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz since 2003, is the Research Director for the Coastal Climate Impacts Program and Co-Developer of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS). His research focuses on the coastal hazards driven by storms and climate change along U.S. beaches and estuaries. His research has been published in over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and he serves on numerous regional, national and international scientific review panels related to climate change and coastal hazards, including the U.S. Global Change Research Program, and has advised members of the U.S. Congress and Cabinet, as well as state and local government representatives.
Dr. Kevin Befus is an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas. He began his faculty career in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming. Prior to moving west, Dr. Befus was a Mendenhall Post-doctoral Fellow at the U.S. Geological Woods Hole Survey Coastal and Marine Science Center, and studies a wide range of hydrologic problems focused on how groundwater systems interact with changes at and near the land surface, ranging from the coast to mountainous continental interiors and extending as far back as the Last Glacial Maximum.
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Tickets are free, and donations are appreciated! Thank you!
Thank you for registering to join us at Our Coastal Climate: Rising Waters in West Marin!
We will see you on Thursday, November 12 at 12:00 pm. Please check your email for the Zoom meeting link.
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