FOSB Events
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Projecting Future Scenarios for Fidalgo Bay (All day)
Projecting Future Scenarios for Fidalgo Bay - Modeling Water Circulation and Coastal Changes
Dr. Eric Grossman, Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
“Dr. Grossman will discuss how the US Geological Survey is using powerful 3D computer modeling to examine coastal processes and inform ecosystem restoration and hazard mitigation in the Salish Sea. How might climate change, sea level rise and land use influence coastal communities, ecosystem restoration outcomes, and Fidalgo Bay? Learn how USGS is constructing a 3D hydrodynamic model of Fidalgo Bay as part of a larger Salish Sea model to study these questions. Citizen science can help USGS and its partners improve these models through research and monitoring – find out how you can get involved as a volunteer!”
Weaverling Spit Bird Walk (Sat. 21 Dec, 2013 8:30 am - 10:30 am)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21
Weaverling Spit, Fidalgo Bay (Audubon)
8:30 a.m. to before noon
Here's a birding start to the shortest day of the year. Weaverling Spit is a walk and scoping field trip on the western edge of Fidalgo Bay, land owned by the Samish Indian Nation. We have permission to go out and inspect the neighborhood for avifauna, a chance to seek both songbirds in the vegetation and water birds on the bay. To find the area drive parallel to Highway 20 on Fidalgo Bay road, just south of Anacortes and turn off it onto Weaverling Road. Meet at the parking lot at the RV Park which is across the Tommy Thompson Trail and to the right. Dress warmly and seasonally (it's winter after all). Trip will end before noon. Scopes will help with the water birds. There will be some minimal walking on the Spit and Tommy Thompson Trail.
Leader: Jack Richardson contact at 360-299-9081