Coastal hazards may be catastrophic such as earthquakes or tsunamis, or chronic, such as coastal erosion, landslides, windthrow and flooding.

Oregon's coast, with its rugged headlands and shifting beaches, along with its susceptibility to natural hazards and its endangered habitats, offers many land use planning challenges.

Enhancing the visibility and promoting coordination of the coastal and marine research and associated data collected along the Oregon coast.

Over the past 250 years, rapid growth in fossil fuel burning and land use changes have caused a dramatic rise in CO²; emissions. As a result the average acidity of the surface ocean has increased about 30% since 1750.