10A February 5, 2016 Seaside Signal seasidesignal.com
Climatologist discusses
effects of climate
change on coastal living
Research shows policy
strategies can mitigate
impacts
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
JOSHUA BESSEX/EO MEDIA GROUP
People stop to look at the dead humpback whale calf that washed ashore on the Seaside beach Sunday. Officials are asking
people not to touch the whale.
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Dalin D’Alessandro, a research assistant at Portland State
University, holds up a sample of a whale kidney.
Mollie Schmidt, with the Seaside Aquarium, front, and Jason
Hussa, a volunteer with the Oregon Marine Mammal Strand-
ing Network, back, cut open the whale and collect tissue
samples during a necropsy.
Addressing
climate change
A whale of a mystery
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such as bullet holes or something stuck in
the mammal’s throat, then it can take days
or weeks to determine a cause of death,
said Keith Chandler, the general manager
of Seaside Aquarium.
It was clear the animal did not die
from old age, as it was only about a year
old, Chandler said. He said it is not un-
usual to see a whale wash ashore on the
North Coast, but they tend to be gray
whales. Humpbacks are rare — Chan-
dler said he has only see a few in his 20
years with the stranding network — but
the species was spotted in nearby waters
recently.
“There were a few humpbacks hang-
ing out in the mouth of the Columbia
River last year,” he said. “They are usu-
ally further offshore. It could have died
offshore and with the storm, washed in.”
The whale was one of at least five ce-
taceans to wash up in the area in three
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Policy decisions made
today regarding land use
can help communities adapt
and mitigate the negative
impacts of climate change,
according to climatologist
John Stevenson.
Stevenson kicked-off
the Listening to the Land
series this year with his
presentation,
“Climate
Change and the Coast,” at
Seaside Public Library on
Wednesday, Jan. 20. The
monthly speaker series,
presented by the North
Coast Land Conservancy
and the Necanicum Wa-
tershed Council, is offered
through May.
Stevenson, a regional
extension climate special-
ist with Oregon Sea Grant
and the Climate Impacts
Research
Consortium,
helps communities re-
spond to climate-driven
changes in coastal hazards,
water resources and forest
disturbance. He examined
how the warming climate
is affecting life on the
coast and what the future
might look like if current
trends continue.
Many rapid climate
changes can be contribut-
days. A harbor porpoise and two striped
dolphins were found Saturday Jan. 30.
One dolphin was found in Cannon Beach
and the other in Ocean Park, Washington.
A third striped dolphin washed ashore
in Seaside Monday. Chandler said it is
“quite unusual to get them all together,”
especially the striped dolphins.
The Ocean Park dolphin showed signs
of being entangled in a net and had a
hole in its tail that appeared to be from
a gaff, Chandler said. The dolphin from
Seaside had a similar hole in the same
area, but it had not undergone a necropsy
by Tuesday. Chandler said it could be a
single event — getting caught in the net
— that caused the unusual occurrence
of killing multiple dolphins at once. If a
single event is the cause of death, Chan-
dler said, then “we know it’s just an ac-
cident,” as opposed to persistent condi-
tions impacting a species, like disease.
City crews planned to bury the whale
at the beach by Wednesday morning.
ed to human activity and
the emission of green-
house gases, which play
a critical role in determin-
ing the global tempera-
ture, Stevenson said.
The National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Admin-
istration and the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration
recent-
ly reported 2015 was the
warmest year on earth
since record-keeping be-
gan in 1880. The tem-
perature along the Oregon
Coast has changed during
the past century, as well,
and is steadily increasing.
Climate change affects
a lot of the earth’s sys-
tems, such as fresh water
sources, vegetation, wild-
¿re occurrence and wet-
lands.
In fresh water systems,
climate change leads to
decreased summer Àow,
increased water tempera-
ture and Àooding after
extreme
precipitation
events. For vegetation, the
coast may experience spe-
cies shifts and low eleva-
tions may become unsuit-
able for 'ouglas ¿r by the
mid- to late century.
Fire disturbance also is
likely to increase, although
there is limited historical
activity on which to base
assessments, Stevenson
said. Wetlands also will
be affected by rising sea
levels, a byproduct of cli-
mate change, with a pre-
dicted loss or mitigation
of estuarine habitat and
tidal swamps.
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