SEQUIM — The Sierra Club North Olympic Group and the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society will give a presentation of the recently finalized and released North Olympic Peninsula Climate Change Preparedness Plan at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The presentation will be at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road.
During several months in 2015, individuals and representatives of nonprofits, tribes and government entities attended workshops, compiled existing data, focused on data gaps and prioritized and recommended planning steps for dealing with climate change in the Sequim area of the Peninsula.
This presentation will include an overview of climate change projections, where the Peninsula is most vulnerable and a compilation of top climate preparedness strategies developed for the three focus areas of ecosystems, water supplies and critical infrastructure.
It will include data from the University of Washington’s Climate Impact Group, NOAA, NASA, the National Climate Assessment, Adaptation International, SeaGrant WA and other researchers.
Dr. Ian Miller, a coastal hazards specialist and a Washington Sea Grant oceanography instructor at Peninsula College, will be joined by Cindy Jayne, project manager of the North Olympic Peninsula Resource Conservation and Development Council, to present the findings of the near-year effort to prepare this plan.
For information, call 360-681-4076 or visit www.dungenessrivercenter.org.
