Olympic National Park’s Perspectives Winter Speaker Series will be hosted by NOLS via Zoom this season. The free talks will be offered at 7pm on the second Tuesday of each month from January through April. Registration is required to attend the Zoom meetings. Participation at each program is limited to the first 100 registered attendees. Programs will be simultaneously streamed via the NOLS Facebook page for additional participants.
This series is sponsored by Olympic National Park, the Friends of Olympic National Park, and the North Olympic Library System. This season’s topics are:
January 11
Elwha Fish Tales in the Upper
Elwha: Updates Since Dam Removal
Heidi Connor and Josh Geffre, Olympic National Park
Hear the latest updates on fish recovery in the Elwha River. Using a variety of techniques fisheries biologists have been monitoring fish response since the removal of two dams was completed in 2014.
February 8
Revisiting Stratigraphy of the
Eocene to Miocene Sedimentary Rocks on the Olympic Peninsula
Erin Donaghy, PhD Student, Purdue University
This research aims to better understand sedimentary basin formation following accretion of a large oceanic plateau (Siletzia) to the Pacific Northwest approximately 50 million years ago. We document the sedimentary basin response to this collision by characterizing changing depositional environments and sediment routing pathways in basin deposits to understand how tectonic plate configurations changed during establishment of the modern Cascadia magmatic arc.
March 8
Forest Restoration on Exposed Sediments
Along the Elwha River
James Kardouni and Jenise M. Bauman, Western Washington University
Riverbank lupine is a pioneering species that assimilates nitrogen through nitrogen-fixing bacteria in a form that is readily available to plants. The purpose of this study was to investigate lupine’s influence on conifer establishment in newly exposed soils that resulted from the removal of the dams on the Elwha River.
April 12
KIamath River Restoration
Josh Chenoweth, Klamath River Restoration
Josh Chenoweth managed the revegetation effort after dam removal on the Elwha River. He’s since moved to take on a similar role during Klamath River Restoration in Southern Oregon/Northern California. Learn about how lessons learned from Elwha revegetation and restoration are informing Klamath restoration.
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