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February 2017 Rising Seas Docent General Meeting by Dan Hammer Saturday, February 11, 9 Am T January’S Meeting, Dr TORREYANA THE DOCENT NEWSLETTER FOR TORREY PINES STATE NATURAL RESERVE Issue 381 February 2017 Rising Seas Docent General Meeting by Dan Hammer Saturday, February 11, 9 am t January’s meeting, Dr. Bob Guza, Professor Emeritus Location: St. Peter’s Episcopal Rec Hall, Del Mar A at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), gave a lively talk on “Sea Level Rise, El Niño, and Coastal Speaker: Bob Leiter, urban and environmental planning consultant Response.” His main points were that marked sea level rise in El Niño years offers a preview of future long-term rises Topic: “Global Warming: A Grandparent’s Perspective” caused by climate change, and that coastal nourishment The former Land Use and Planning Director for SANDAG, Mr. projects often have unintended consequences. Leiter now helps state and regional planning agencies implement SB 375, California’s pioneering law on climate change mitigation. Bob’s career at Scripps began as the unintended He is a lecturer in urban studies and planning for UCSD and serves consequence of a 1969 vacation in San Diego, when he fell on the Board of STAY COOL for Grandkids, a San Diego-based in love with Swami’s Beach and realized that SIO was right organization encouraging seniors to take action against global down the coast. At the time, he was studying theoretical warming. physics at Johns Hopkins. He asked us to consider the Refreshments: Docents with last names beginning with alternatives: “a freezing basement in Baltimore or Scripps? D, E, F will be responsible for providing snacks for this meeting. – you do the math.” At SIO, Bob moved from theoretical fluid mechanics to polar ice caps melt dramatically, sea level could rise observations with a practical goal: “what we can learn about catastrophically. beaches by looking at them.” The great economic benefits For the past 15 years, SIO has closely monitored waves and of beaches are threatened by sea level rise, both during beach erosion at Torrey Pines and other San Diego County extreme weather events and long term because of climate beaches using GPS-equipped jet-skis, all-terrain vehicles, change. In our region, the sea level rose 425 feet between wave buoys, and other measurements. During El Niño 20,000 and 12,000 years ago, which is why Native events, big waves occurring at Inside American bowls are found in 100 feet of water. Sea level greater frequency cause severe Meeting Minutes 2 has been essentially flat for the last 8,000 years (“We were erosion. in stasis”) and has risen only a Children’s Program 3 foot since 1920. Sea level rises Torrey Pines was Docent of the Month 3 roughly an additional foot in “hammered” in the New Ranger 4 each El Niño year, giving us a 2015-16 El Niño, CEED Trips 4 which scoured the glimpse into the future. By 2016 by the Numbers 4 beach and various estimates, sea level Did you know? 5 will rise several feet by the deposited large cobbles, which TP Book Club 5 year 2100, with an additional Plant of the Month 6 foot during El Niño years. covered the beach and closed the Birding Event 6 Flooding during extreme Bird of the Month 7 weather events will be more lagoon mouth. Bird Survey 7 severe and more frequent. If February 2017 Torreyana 1 The Torrey Pines Docent Society publishes A long-term (2001-15) study of Torrey Pines Beach revealed a disturbing the Torreyana monthly, edited by Joan downward trend in beach width, possibly caused by the loss of sediment from Simon and Dan Hammer on alternate North County’s dammed rivers. By contrast, Oceanside’s beaches are months, and is formatted and produced by continually nourished by the Santa Margarita, the county’s only free-running Roger Isaacson. Submissions are due on or river. about the 20th day of the preceding month and may be emailed to Recognizing that beaches are an important part of our infrastructure (both as an [email protected]. economic resource and as protection for coastal highways), San Diego County Circulation manager: Marian Casazza has invested heavily in beach nourishment projects. These have been Extra copies of the printed Torreyana may successful in Cardiff and Solana Beach but have had unintended consequences be found in the docent library. elsewhere, especially in Imperial Beach. There, houses built along the Silver Please send postal/ Strand are lower than the nourished beach; when the new sand became email address changes to: saturated, the houses flooded. Some of the new sand migrated south and Torrey Pines Docent Society contributed to blocking the Tijuana River Estuary, increasing pollution and P.O. Box 2414, Del Mar, CA 92014 disturbing the estuarine ecosystem. Attn: Membership or email to Dr. Guza concluded dramatically, exiting via ambulance, and successfully [email protected] received a pacemaker. Web sites: TP Docent Society: torreypine.org December Meeting Minutes TP Association: torreypines.org January 14, 2017 Visitor Center phone: 858.755.2063 Meeting called to order at 9:00 am by Ingo Renner. TPDS 2016 Board Members: Speaker: Bob Guza, Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of President: Ingo Renner Oceanography, described how and why sand erodes and moves along our Vice-president: Ray Barger beaches and what we might expect in the future. Treasurer: Gerry Lawrence TPSNR App: Ray Barger asked docents who want to help define requirements Secretary: Annette Ring to adapt an existing mobile device application for visitors to contact him. Our Directors-at-large: mission is to interpret our Reserve for visitors. By providing information and Pao Chau maps of TPSNR, this app could be a vital tool to that end. Roger Isaacson Geology Exhibit: Ray Barger asked that docents interested in creating updated Steve Neal Lodge and Children’s Program geology exhibits this spring contact him. Lynne Small Badges: Greg Howard distributed new name badges to docents who had Janet Ugalde ordered one. TPSNR Staff: Supervising Ranger: Dylan Hardenbrook Parking Passes: Louis Sands gave out 2017 parking passes to docents who had met the requirements. Rangers: Trevor Irace, Kyle Knox, Jesus "Chuy" Salinas Rodriguez Refreshments: Chuck Anders is missing one of the refreshment bins for Sr. Park Aides: Louis Sands, Jake Mumma making coffee. If you’ve seen it, please let him know. Park Aides: Joy Inton, Johnson Jou Mentors: Bruce Montgomery is looking for mentors for the 2017 trainees. (Interpreter) Docent training will begin the last Saturday of February. Mindfulness in Nature: Please see Gloria Garrett if you have any questions © Torrey Pines Docent Society about the Mindfulness in Nature walks. Since 1975 All rights reserved Science Fair: Wayne Kornreich is looking for volunteers for the Science Fair. Trail Patrol Training: Scheduled for Saturday, January 21 at the Lodge. There are plans for a mini training session on an upcoming Sunday, depending on FLASH From Joy Inton: Don’t when the ranger is available. Lynne Truong will send out details. forget to donate your ZooNooz Road Cleanup: Kristine Schindler has been organizing road cleanup in three magazines to the Museum Shop. parts. The last one was on January 15 to clean up the lagoon (see pg. 6). Community Outreach: Ingo Renner is looking for a docent volunteer to perform this function on behalf of TPDS. Contact Ingo if you are interested. February 2017 Torreyana 2 Lodge Hours: Requests have been made to open the Lodge at 9 am on weekends and holidays six weeks before PDST Docent of the Month: takes effect in March. Ingo is looking into this. Guy Laurie Spotlight On: Joe Meyer gave a recap with slides of the First Day Hikes, a nationwide State Parks event that takes Photo by Herb Knüfken place on New Year’s Day. In California, 53 parks took part recognize the with a total of 85 hikes. At TPSNR it rained that day. For Joe’s 10 am hike, there were only two brave souls. For the I selflessness of so 2 pm walk, 11 visitors joined George Beardsley. many fine folks in CEED Events: Whale Watching trip is scheduled for the Docent Society, January 31. February event will be a tour of the Salton Sea and I feel humbled (see pg. 4 for update). and thankful to be Treasurer’s Report: Gerry Lawrence gave the financial review for 2016. For details, see the bulletin board in the part of the library or go to the Society Docs link (usual password Society. We each needed) on the website. have a story to tell Docent of the Month: Guy Lawrie, for all his work about how we removing graffiti from the beach cliffs and leading special decided to take up walks. service to Torrey Refreshments: At February’s General Meeting, docents with last names starting with letters D, E, F are responsible Pines State Reserve, for snacks. and here is a bit of Meeting ended at 11:06 am. mine. As a young man studying Criminology at Long Beach CSU, my friends and I would find our Children’s Program favorite surf spot along the north side of Torrey by Janet Ugalde, Children’s Program Director Pines State Beach. I realized I would soon be ooray for the rain, but for us it means cancelled field going into the service (my PD Watch Commander trips and disappointed students. Our intrepid H told me the Marines would be the way to go!), and coordinator, Louis Sands, is hard at work scheduling makeup dates for our rained-out student groups. He will be my last day of surfing before induction was north utilizing additional Fridays while filling any open spaces on of the mouth of Peñasquitos Creek. our regular schedule.
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