Monthly Archives: April 2007

DVD: Celilo Falls – 50th anniversary edition

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Celilo Falls DVD coverCelilo Falls and the Remaking of the Columbia River: 50th Anniversary Edition. This award-winning documentary uses rare archival footage and photos to examine a turning point in the history of the Pacific Northwest. For more than 10,000 years the region’s native peoples lived successfully off the land and waters. Salmon was a mainstay of the Indians’ diet, and for millennia Celilo Falls was the great Indian fishery on the mid-Columbia River, drawing people from throughout the West to trade for salmon. Then, in 1957, a giant hydroelectric dam at The Dalles drowned Celilo Falls and ended the fishery there for all time. Celilo Falls and the Remaking of the Columbia River provides a glimpse of life at Celilo as it once was and considers the cultural, social, and political forces that brought about its end. This 2007 edition marks the 50th anniversary of the inundation, with additional rare Celilo footage provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 2007. Color, DVD. 29 minutes. $19.95 plus $2 shipping and handling.

Summer 2007 marine science day camps for kids

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It’s not too early to sign your child up for this summer’s marine science day camps at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. The four-day, age-appropriate summer camps on the Central Oregon coast are designed for youngsters 8-12 and 13-17 and cover a variety of marine-science topics. Hands-on classes and outdoor field adventures cover topics ranging from marine biology to geologic processes, marine mammals and oceanography. Classes and field trips are led by experienced educators from Oregon Sea Grant’s marine education program.

Registration fees range from $120-$140, and cover all instructional materials, field-trip transportation and a camp T-shirt. Lunches are not included.

Our day camps are extremely popular and fill fast – register early to assure your child a place!

NOAA workshop for science teachers

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What: Ocean Science and Exploration, a professional development workshop
When: Saturday, June 30, 2007, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Where: Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore.

Classroom science teachers (grades 6-12) are invited to join NOAA education specialists Bruce Moravchik and Cindy Renkas for a day-long workshop on using the agency’s Discovery Center and Ocean Explorer Web sites to connect and engage students on subjects ranging from ocean careers to the watery realms of estuaries, coral reefs, and deep ocean volcanos. Stipends are available for teachers who commit to follow-up activities and evaluations.

Pre-registration (by June 11) is required, and space is limited. For more information contact Melissa Feldberg at Oregon Sea Grant, (541) 737-2758.

Sorry, but teachers who have participated in previous Discovery Center/Ocean Explorer workshops are not eligible to take part.

New on DVD: Beach Safety Basics

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Beach Safety BasicsJust in time for vacation season, two new, short videos from Oregon Sea Grant address two of the most common safety hazards associated with the Pacific Northwest coasts: rolling logs and rip currents. All too often, visitors to our beaches are unfamiliar with the dangers of playing on large logs that may roll in the surf, or powerful rip currents which can pull swimmers out to sea. The two videos contained on this DVD explain these hazards and how to avoid or respond safely to them, using interviews with experts to emphasize key insights.

The videos are intended for use wherever coastal visitors congregate, including coastal museums,visitor centers, hotels, motels, campgrounds, and local cable TV stations.

Available  for $6.95 per copy plus $2 shipping and handling:

Workshop: Building and maintaining ornamental ponds

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What: Pond School 2007
When: May 5, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Where: Oregon State University’s Lasells Stewart Center

Corvallis, Ore. – Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon Aquaculture Association will host a day-long workshop on Saturday, May 5 for anyone interested in ponds and ornamental fish. Featuring a broad range of speakers from Oregon universities, agencies, and the ornamental fish and garden industries, the workshop includes in-depth sessions on pond ecology, disease prevention and control, and pond-scaping, among other topics.

Classes prepare fishermen, scientists to survive at sea

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Marine safety class in actionNewport, Ore. – A series of one- and two-day classes offered by Oregon Sea Grant aims to prepare fishermen, scientists and others whose work takes them to sea to survive the worst of what the watery environment can throw at them.

Organized by Sea Grant Extension’s Kaety Hildenbrand and taught by the U.S. Coast Guard, the remaining classes, coming up in May and June, are directed at marine scientists, graduate students, aquarium specimen collectors and others whose jobs take them to sea, but who likely have not had the formal training safety available to commercial fishermen.