Breaking Waves

Oregon Sea Grant has published a revised Quests book – The Oregon Coast Quests Book: 2013-14 Edition. Quests are fun and educational clue-directed hunts that encourage exploration of natural areas. In this self-guided activity, Questers follow a map and find a series of clues to reach a hidden box. The box contains a small guest [...]

The booklet Development of Live Shellfish Export Capacity in Oregon is available as a free download from Oregon Sea Grant. There are many opportunities for seafood exporters to earn substantial profit in Asian markets. The trade in live shellfish exports to China could be especially lucrative. In many respects, Oregon’s shellfish industry is well positioned [...]

The following publication is available as a free download from Oregon Sea Grant. The print version may be purchased from Oregon Sea Grant’s e-commerce store. Planning for Resilience in Oregon’s Coastal Drinking Water Systems On Oregon’s rugged coast, large-scale infrastructure for public utilities is virtually nonexistent, meaning that drinking water must be obtained through small [...]

People who visit the bay fronts of Oregon’s harbors often see working boats at dock and wonder about them and about the types of commercial fishing being done along the coast. A series of 10 Newport’s Commercial Fisheries signs are now available to answer some of those questions. Not only can the bay front signs [...]

The following publication may be purchased from Oregon Sea Grant. Pathways to Resilience: Sustaining Salmon Ecosystems in a Changing World. “Resilience holds the key to our future. It is a deceptively simple idea, but its application has proven elusive.” —Jane Lubchenco, administrator of NOAA Fishery management programs designed to control Pacific salmon for optimum production [...]

The following publications are available from Oregon Sea Grant. Low Impact Development Fact Sheets. This series of short publications, developed by Oregon Sea Grant’s watershed education and outreach team, lays out guidelines for choosing, building, maintaining and testing a variety of “green” options for handling stormwater runoff from residential, commercial and public property. (For greater [...]

The following publication is available from Oregon Sea Grant. It may also be purchased from Oregon Sea Grant. Oregon’s Non-Consumptive Recreational Ocean User Community: Understanding an ocean stakeholder While some types of ocean use, such as recreational and commercial fishing, have received research attention, little research has been directed at Oregon’s non-consumptive recreational ocean users. [...]

The following publication is available from Oregon Sea Grant. Working Group Considers Effects of a Changing Climate: A Report to the Port Orford Community This report summarizes the activities to plan for climate change undertaken cooperatively by Oregon Sea Grant and a working group of Port Orford (Ore.) citizens from January 2009 to August 2010. [...]

The following publication is available as a free download from Oregon Sea Grant. It may also be purchased from Oregon Sea Grant. Coastal Resilience: Assisting Communities in the Face of Climate Change Community resilience is the ability of a community to respond to or recover from systemic disturbances, including climate-related effects on the environment, economy, [...]

We’ve reduced the price of one of our most popular DVDs. The Watersheds and Salmon Collection DVD is now priced at $12.95 (was $29.95) plus shipping and handling. It contains the following four videos: Life Cycle of the Salmon (5 minutes) Governor Kitzhaber Interview (9 minutes) The Return of the Salmon (33 minutes) Salmon: Why [...]