NEW LINK. Climate change MAPPER geo-locating webpage. Drop a pin and upload a picture where you think there is a risk of:
- Wildfire
- Extreme Heat
- Precipitation
- Flooding and Sea Level Rise
- Other
GET INVOLVED! Climate Ready San Mateo County is trying hard to reach out, in person and on-line. Share the MAPPER with friends that live in the county. You live near a lot of eucalyptus trees?
Zoom in and drop a pin, upload a photo, and show them where you are concerned.
Where do you think San Mateo County is most vulnerable to climate change hazards from rising temperature and heat, wildfires, intensifying rainfall and severe storm events?
Climate change is here, and it poses many risks to the built and natural environment in San Mateo County. Rising temperatures and heat waves, wildfires, extreme storms, sea level rise and coastal erosion are some of the challenges we face. By working together, planning ahead and being better informed, we can be more effectively prepare to protect our communities, natural resources, essential services and infrastructure, and most importantly our physical and mental well-being and health. Climate Ready SMC is an initiative of the County of San Mateo Office of Sustainability.
The California King Tides Project helps people visualize future sea level by observing the highest high tides of today. You can help by taking and sharing photos of the shoreline during King Tides to create a record of the changes to our coast from sea level rise. Find out when and how high King Tides will be near you. Learn how to participate by uploading your photos via a web browser or with a free app. These California King Tides photos are displayed on an interactive story map.
King Tides Came January 20 and 21, 2019.
Photos taken at COFFEE & KING TIDES event.
Surfers Beach to Miramar walk and talk with phot ops, San Mateo County, Half Moon Bay
Jan. 19, 8am
Presented by County of San Mateo
View and photograph the high tides and talk about sea level rise in San Mateo County. Info: drossiter@smcgov.org
Addressing the huge issue of sea level rise requires partnerships. We would especially like to thank the partners who gave their perspective:
- Hilary Papendick (County of San Mateo)
- Joe LaClair (County of San Mateo)
- Deborah Hirst (County of San Mateo, Office of Supervisor Don Horsley)
- Ed Larenas (Commissioner, Harbor District)
- Cambria Bartlett (Heirs To Our Ocean)
- Maziar Bozorginia (City of Half Moon Bay)
- Zoe Kersteen Tucka (Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District)
- Marie Chuang (Councilmember, Town of Hillsborough; Vice Chair, City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County)
South Jetty.
South Jetty Meeting Place.
Deborah Hirst from Supervisor Horselys Office Leads Off. About 80 people showed up.
Walking South to Miramar at the Bridge.
Kersteen-Tucker will serve the remaining two years of Harris’s term, representing residents in El Granada, Half Moon Bay, Montara, Moss Beach, San Carlos and parts of Redwood City and Woodside. She is the first Coastside resident to serve on the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District’s board since the organization’s boundaries expanded to include the San Mateo County Coast in 2004. And, yes, the waves did get Zoe wet. King Tide.
Two New Directors Join MROSD Board ~ Press Release
San Mateo Harbor Commissioner, Ed Larenas.
Half Moon Bay City Councilwoman Deborah Penrose plans to ban single use water bottles in Half Moon Bay.
Cambria Bartlett of Heirs to Our Oceans. She is 14, inspired, articulate and our future.
HEIRS TO OUR OCEANS. That’s who we are, along with your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and newly-spawned zygotes.
Heirs to our oceans are the next generation and the future generations who will inherit this planet and all that comes with it…. after your generation is done with it.
We live just near the Pacific Ocean. We have learned about and seen the atrocities to our ocean. We have studied what is happening to know why action is needed to end the human impact on our planet’s oceans.
We are sad. We are mad. We are motivated. We are inspired. We are hopeful. We are tenacious. And together we are taking action.
Half Moon Bay Yacht Club’s Tiki Hut at King Tide.
Buzz on the Job!