{"id":21520,"date":"2012-05-04T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=21520"},"modified":"2012-05-04T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:47:03","slug":"noaas-margaret-davidson-watching-the-coasts-preparing-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2012\/05\/04\/noaas-margaret-davidson-watching-the-coasts-preparing-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA&#8217;s Margaret Davidson: Watching the Coasts, Preparing for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tonight: The latest in our series of TV interviews with climate change thought leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As head of <a href=\"www.csc.noaa.gov\">NOAA\u2019s Coastal Services Center<\/a>, Margaret Davidson has her eye firmly on the future of the country&#8217;s coasts, and the threats imposed from rising seas and more extreme weather. Davidson is based in South Carolina, but is a close watcher of California, where coast and climate may be on a collision course.<\/p>\n<p><em>Climate Watch<\/em> Senior Editor Craig Miller spoke with Davidson about sea level rise and the California coast. Their conversation will air this evening on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/tv\/programs\/thisweek\/\"><em>This Week in Northern California<\/em><\/a>, on KQED Public Television 9.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clip that\u2019s not included the TV broadcast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K9rMgSeJd8s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nRead more about San Francisco&#8217;s plans to slow erosion and prepare for sea level rise at Ocean Beach:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ocean Beach Bulletin: <a href=\"http:\/\/oceanbeachbulletin.com\/2012\/03\/16\/ocean-beach-master-plan-charts-course-for-future\/\">Ocean Beach Master Plan Charts Course for Future<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spur.org\/ocean-beach\">SPUR&#8217;s Ocean Beach Master Plan website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Climate Watch <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/tag\/ocean-beach\/\">stories on Ocean Beach<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight: The latest in our series of TV interviews with climate change thought leaders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":21572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[386,399,502],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-21520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-business","category-water","tag-noaa","tag-ocean-beach","tag-sea-level-rise"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - 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