Monthly Chapter Meeting

On Oceans!

7 pm Nov. 19 on zoom with Special Guest Speaker Bill Gorham, marine biologist and Climate Reality leader.

Chapter Updates and general discussion will follow the presentation.

Our oceans have absorbed the bulk of the heat trapped in the past 150 years and much of the CO2, and it’s fortunate that they have otherwise our planet would be uninhabitable. Bill Gorham will discuss the physical, chemical, and biological changes that we have already seen and are projected to increase in the absence of action on climate. Many effects are interrelated and several tipping points are close to being or have been exceeded, possibly irrevocably.

Bill received his PhD in Marine Biology in 1984, taught college level biology for nearly a decade, then moved into environmental consulting until he retired in 2017 and moved to Brookings. He’s restored coral reefs, led field programs for both marine and terrestrial projects, managed environmental permit applications for many proposed projects including large terrestrial and marine-related energy projects. Since retiring, Bill has focused much of his time on educating people on the climate crisis and empowering them to take personal and collective action. He became a Climate Reality Leader in Atlanta, 2019, and is active locally, nationally, and globally in this effort to pass a habitable planet onto future generations.

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Chapter meetings are at 7 pm the third Wednesday of the month. To accommodate members from different parts of the Portland Metro area and beyond, our meetings are primarily on zoom, with in person social events a few times per year.