Rising Sea Levels Seminar in Port Angeles, WA

Port Townsend faces the possibility of more flooding by 2030 while Port Angeles and Neah Bay are so far keeping pace with sea level rise, but that could change within the next 85 years, according to a climate change study that will be discussed at a free seminar this week.

Ian Miller,  coastal hazards specialist with Washington Sea Grant, and Cindy Jayne of the North Olympic Development Council, will discuss the impacts of sea level rising over the next several decades on communities on the North Olympic Peninsula.

During the seminar, Miller will speak about sea level rise, ocean acidification, marine debris, tsunamis, beach erosion, Washington coastal ecology, coastal sediment transport and geomorphology — the study of the physical features of the surface of the earth and their relation to its geological structures.