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Jun 17 2012 -- Aug 4 2012  Volunteers Needed to Cope with Invaders Dock that landed on CoastWatch Mile 218. Photo by mile adopter Chris Burns. Scientists at the Hatfield Marine Science Center need volunteer help with organisms from the famous floating dock that landed at Agate Beach in Newport, having been sucked out to sea by the tsunami and carried across the ocean, freighted with non-native species. "There is an assortment of interesting organisms that came ashore with the Japanese floating dock. John Chapman (an invasive species expert) and I could use some help sorting through organisms that we collected from the dock,” says Jessica Miller, an assistant professor of Marine and Anadromous Fisheries Ecology at the HMSC. If you are interested, contact Miller, 541-867-0381 (office), 503-939-9812 (mobile) or John Chapman. This is a great opportunity to view living species from the western Pacific for free! ©2013 Oregon Shores •  CONTACT US