Jesse is the CoastWatch Program Manager for Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition. CoastWatch is a mile-by-mile beach adoption program with a mission to encourage care and knowledge of Oregon coast. She joined OSCC in 2019 as the volunteer coordinator and has grown the CoastWatch program into a citizen and community science hub for the Oregon coast. She also started CoastWatch in Schools, which recruits teachers to enroll their classrooms in on the beach monitoring and surveys. Jesse is a lifelong Oregonian who has worked alongside hundreds of others in the last two decades to restore, educate and inspire. Jesse is a previous watershed council coordinator and has also worked for Clatsop Soil & Water Conservation District, Surfrider, Haystack Rock Awareness Program, Mercy Corps International and an environmental puppet troupe in Ireland called Artastic. She was also a consultant working as a mediator, grant manager and educational program designer. She lives in Astoria.

The Talk: Jesse will take a deep dive into the power of people when it comes to coastal science here in Oregon. CoastWatch is a program operated by the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, monitoring and stewarding beaches along Oregon’s 362-mile coastline. How can people power science? What kind of science are they powering? And what does it mean for the future of stewarding the Oregon coast? These are questions that Jesse plans to answer while telling the story of the CoastWatch program.

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