{"id":4099,"date":"2018-10-11T09:11:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T16:11:35","slug":"state-of-the-coast-conference-set-for-oct-27-in-coos-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2018\/10\/11\/state-of-the-coast-conference-set-for-oct-27-in-coos-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018State of the Coast\u2019 conference set for Oct. 27 in Coos Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

10-11-18<\/em><\/p>\n

By Rick Cooper<\/em><\/p>\n

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(from left to right) Lincoln County Commissioner Terry Thompson, 2017 Sea Grant legislative scholar Annie Montgomery, and Amanda Gladics, an Oregon Sea Grant Extension specialist, chat during Oregon Sea Grant’s State of the Coast conference in Florence, Ore., in 2017. (Photo by Tiffany Woods)<\/p><\/div>\n

COOS BAY, Ore. \u2013 Registration has opened for Oregon Sea Grant’s annual State of the Coast conference<\/a><\/u>, which will be held Oct. 27 in Coos Bay.<\/p>\n

Billed as Oregon’s coastal conference for everyone, the event aims to bring together the public, scientists, fishermen, resource managers, artists, teachers, students and conservationists. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn, network and talk about the current status and future of Oregon’s marine environment.<\/p>\n

The keynote speaker will be science writer Sam Kean<\/a><\/u>, who authored The New York Times bestseller \u201cThe Disappearing Spoon\u201d and three other popular science books. His work has been featured on several public radio<\/a> shows, including \u201cScience Friday\u201d and \u201cFresh Air.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Lee, a graduate student at Oregon State University, talks about her research on Dungeness crab genetics, during Oregon Sea Grant’s State of the Coast conference in Florence, Ore., in 2017. (Photo by Tiffany Woods)<\/p><\/div>\n

Kean\u2019s talk is titled \u201cA Sense of Wellbeing or Danger: How the brain perceives and creates a coastal scene.\u201d He will unpackage how the brain works, using examples from the natural world to demonstrate how our senses work together and how memory is processed in the brain.<\/p>\n

Under this year’s theme, “The Coast Through Your Senses,” presenters will address a variety of topics, including:<\/p>\n