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The Columbia Press
August 21, 2020
Blood drive a success
A Red Cross worker prepares a sta-
tion for blood donors during the Fort
Stevens 10580 VFW Post & Aux-
iliary’s Aug. 11 blood drive at the
Masonic Lodge in Warrenton. “We
exceeded our goal in units of blood
donated,” said organizer Debbie
Little, president of the auxiliary. “We
have another drive planned on Dec.
28 and hope to make this a recur-
ring event.”
Universities win
glacier study grants
A combined $2.2 million in collab-
orative research grants are headed
to Oregon State University and the
University of Oregon.
The money will be used to study
tidewater glaciers and is expected
to generate key climate change data,
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff
Merkley announced recently.
Sea-level rise will affect millions of
people in coastal communities with-
in the next several decades, the Na-
tional Science Foundation has said.
The grants will study tidewater gla-
ciers’ role in that threat.
“Comprehensive scientific studies
like these on tidewater glaciers pro-
duce results that can and must be
used to protect communities along
the Oregon Coast, the United States
and the world,” Wyden said.
It’s a great way to leverage OSU’s
strength in oceanography and robot-
ic technologies, said Jonathan Nash,
professor of Oceanography at OSU.
“These observations are a key ele-
ment necessary to better predict the
severity of sea-level rise driven by
our changing climate,” Nash said.
“Never before have measurements
like this been possible.”