Coastal SOCAN monthly meetings, 2019

 

Meeting Date Speaker Topic
February 12 Alan Journet, PhD.  & Kathy Conway, Co-Facilitators Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) Our Climate Crisis: The Urgency Grows
March 27 Bill Gorham, Ph.D., Coastal SOCAN Co-Facilitator The Climate Crisis – Must We, Can We, Will We?
April 24 Ann Schmierer, Ph.D., Executive Director, Wild Rivers Land Trust Natural Climate Solutions
May 22 Community Action Plan (CAP) volunteers Development of CAPs
June 26 Shannon Souza, P.E., Sol Coast Companies, Sustainability Coordinator Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Surviving and Thriving on the Edge: Mitigating & Adapting to Climate Change*
July 24 Jacob Knudsen, Marketing & Member Services Manager, Coos Curry Electric Cooperative Net Metering and Conservation*
August 28 Bill Bradbury, former Oregon Secretary of State, Climate Reality Project Leader The Oregon Legislative Process, HB2020 as a working example
September 25 Miranda Gray, South Coast Watershed Council Coordinator Oregon’s South Coast Watersheds, Current Projects and Plans*
October 23 Tom Suchanek, Ph.D., Research Associate, University of California, Davis What’s Happening to our Ocean & Forests?*
November 27 CAP volunteers Appreciation of CAP volunteers, update & potluck
December 25 Christmas Day, no Coastal SOCAN meeting
* Talks available on Curry County Voices (https://currycountyvoices.com/programs/)

 

Coastal SOCAN monthly meetings, 2020

 

Meeting Date Speaker Topic
Jan 22 Ann Schmierer, Ph.D., Executive Director, Wild Rivers Land Trust Understanding and Dealing with

Climate Change*

Feb 27 Bill Gorham, Ph.D., Coastal SOCAN Co-Facilitator, Charley Kahler, Ph.D., Coastal SOCAN, Planning Committee Demystifying Climate Change Myths*
* Talks  available on Curry County Voices (https://currycountyvoices.com/programs/)

Formal Presentations under Coastal SOCAN banner, 2019

Date Personnel Title and Audience
April 10 Bill Gorham, Ed Patterson The Climate Crisis – Must We, Can We, Will We?; Lion’s Club of Brookings Harbor
April 20 Bill Gorham What can we do about climate change – a civil discussion; 7 Devil’s Brewery, Coos Bay, open discussion of actions we can take to help fight climate change
May 9 Bill Gorham, Dennis Triglia The Climate Crisis – Must We, Can We, Will We?; Tolowa Dee-Ni Nation Tribal Council, Smith River, CA
Sept 5 Bill Gorham Resources for teachers on climate change, Brookings Harbor High School
Sept 18 Bill Gorham, Ed Patterson, Deb Worth Domoic Acid, Ocean Acidification, Dead Zones; Oregon South Coast Fishermen’s Association
Oct 10 Bill Gorham Lead session on climate change as part of 4-week course “One Planet – One Ocean”, Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC)
Oct 21 Bill Gorham The Climate Crisis – Must We, Can We, Will We?; AECOM, Los Angeles, CA
Oct 22 Bill Gorham The Climate Crisis – Must We, Can We, Will We?; AECOM, Camarillo, CA
Nov 5 Bill Gorham, Dennis Triglia The Science of Climate Change, SWOCC
Nov 20 Bill Gorham 24-hours of Reality
Dec 11 Bill Gorham What’s up with the salmon? Discussion on ocean acidification, Chetco Brewery
Dec 20 Bill Gorham, Ed Patterson Employment opportunities in a low carbon economy, Brookings Harbor High School, STEM class

 

Formal Presentations under Coastal SOCAN banner, 2020

Date Personnel Title and Audience
Jan 21 Bill Gorham Climate Change, Are we being affected? Why are we being affected? What can we do about it? – Lower Rogue & Curry Watershed Councils
Feb 4 Bill Gorham Climate Change, Are we being affected? Why are we being affected? What can we do about it? – Brookings Harbor Rotary
Feb 6, 13, 20, 27 Bill Gorham Climate Change, The Science and Global Impact (in conjunction with edX course taught by Dr. Michael Mann), SWOCC & Beyond Lecture Series

 

 

 

 

Letters to the Editor, Guest Columns, Letters to Legislators, other similar communications, 2019

Date Author & Recipient Topic
August 17 Bill Gorham; Curry Coastal Pilot Letter to the Editor: Climate change certainly isn’t ‘false news’
October 15 Bill Gorham; Curry Coastal Pilot Guest Column: Solutions to climate change
October 18 Bill Gorham; Mr. David Brock Smith, Oregon State Representative, District 1 Thanking Mr. Brock Smith for his participation in our August 28 discussion about the Oregon legislative process that focused on HB2020

 

 

 

 

Coastal SOCAN activities, 2018/2019

 

Date Coastal SOCAN Personnel Activity
Nov 15, 2018 & on-going Ed Patterson, Deb Worth, Bill Gorham, Lee Tuley, & others Initial organizational meetings for Coastal SOCAN. Developed into twice monthly meetings of the Planning Committee with the addition of Dennis Triglia and Charley Kahler, meetings 1st & 3rd Thursdays each month
Jan 14-Mar 21 Bill Gorham, Ed Patterson, Deb Worth, Lee Tuley, + 3 Coastal SOCAN members Change is Our Choice, Northwest Earth Institute’s (NWEI’s) interactive discussion course on climate change.
March 13-15 Bill Gorham Training at the Climate Reality Program in Atlanta, Georgia
Apr 2-Apr 30 Bill Gorham, Dennis Triglia, Charley Kahler, + 3 Coastal SOCAN members Change is Our Choice, NWEI’s interactive discussion course on climate change.
May 8 Bill Gorham Presentation of Coastal SOCAN’s activities to the Leadership Circle of SOCAN
June 12 Bill Gorham A Teacher Conversation on Climate Change in the Classroom, SOCAN workshop on teaching climate change in K-12 grades
June 14 Bill Gorham, Ed Patterson Climate Reality Project presentation to Indivisible 97415
July 14 Ed Patterson, Lee Tuley, Charley Kahler, Bill Gorham Met with Sandi and Wayne Sturm, both leaders for the Climate Reality Project and developers of climate action groups and related environmental groups
August 10 Deb Worth, Ed Patterson, Lee Tuley Cherish the Chetco – co sponsored event to clean trash from the Chetco and raise awareness of local citizens about the health of the local rivers
August 14, subsequent 2nd Thursdays each month Ed Patterson, Deb Worth, Bill Gorham, Lee Tuley, Dennis Triglia, Charley Kahler “All Things Climate” – monthly get together to talk about topical issues related to climate change that are of interest to all participants.
September 19 Ed Patterson, Bill Gorham Outreach and initial discussions with Del Norte Climate Justice Alliance
October 16 Bill Gorham, Ed Patterson, Charley Kahler Excellence in Education, Southwest Oregon Community College; double exercise for high school freshmen demonstrating effects of increasing CO2 on pH of seawater and low pH sea water on crab shells – 5 groups of about 2 dozen students each for total of roughly 120 students
Jan 12-Oct 12 Lee Tuley, Misty Young & guests Fifteen broadcasts/podcasts from local community radio (KCIW) on climate change related topics

 

 

Coastal SOCAN activities, 2020

 

Date Coastal SOCAN Personnel Activity
April 18 Bill Gorham, Karen Cunningham, Ed Patterson, Charley Kahler, Deb Worth, Lee Tuley, & Marina Berny 50th Anniversary celebration of Earth Day. Hosted by SWOCC. Information tables, speakers, videos, electric car show, art show, silent auction to fund scholarships, passport game for prizes, music, food, activities

 

 

 

 

KCIW Podcasts, 2019

 

Title & date Link
Reality Check: Update on Renewables with Shannon Souza (Nov 30, 2019) http://content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0035_Update_On_Renewables_with_Shannon_Souza.mp3
Reality Check: Climate Solutions with Tom Suchanek, Ph.D (Oct 12, 2019) https://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0032_Climate_Solutions_with_Tom_Suchanek_PhD.mp3
Reality Check: Climate Update with Alan Journet, Ph.D.

(Sep 28, 2019)

https://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0031_Climate_Update_With_Alan_Journet.mp3
Ocean Mist Power Hour: Climate Change Science

(Sep 23, 2019)

https://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/OMPH_0027_Climate_Change_Science.mp3
Reality Check: Curry Watersheds Partnership

(Sep 14, 2019)

https://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0029_Curry_Watersheds_Partnership.mp3
Reality Check: A Conversation With Bill Bradbury

(Aug 31, 2019)

https://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0028_Bill_Bradbury.mp3
Ocean Mist Power Hour: The House Is On Fire! Grab a Bucket! (Aug 26, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/OMPH_0023_The_House_is_on_Fire.mp3
Reality Check: Climate Change Depression and Climate Deniers (Jul 6, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0024_Climate_Change_Depression_and_Climate_Deniers.mp3
Reality Check: The Future of Electric Cars (Jun 22, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0023_The_Future_of_Electric_Cars.mp3
Reality Check: Is the Chetco At Risk? (Jun 8, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0022_Is_The_Chetco_At_Risk.mp3
Reality Check: Energy Security (May 11, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0020_Energy_Security.mp3
Reality Check: Permaculture (Apr 13, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0018_Permaculture.mp3
Reality Check: Natural Climate Solutions (Mar 23, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0017_Natural_Climate_Solutions.mp3
Reality Check: The Future of Fishing (Mar 9, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0016_The_Future_of_Fishing.mp3
Reality Check: The Politics of Climate Change (Feb 23, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0015_The_Politics_of_Climate_Change.mp3
Reality Check: Climate Change – Fact or Fiction? (Jan 12, 2019) http://media.blubrry.com/3cradio/p/content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0013_Climate_Change-Fact_or_Fiction.mp3

 

KCIW Podcasts, 2020

 

Title & date Link
Reality Check: Demystifying Climate Change with Bill Gorham (March 2, 2020) https://content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0042_Demystifying_Climate_Change_Myths.mp3
Reality Check: Dealing with Change & Other Stressors with Ann Schmierer (Feb 22, 2020) https://content.blubrry.com/3cradio/Reality_Check_0041_Dealing_with_Change_and_Other_Stressors.mp3