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We are finding, coaching and training public media\u2019s next generation. This <\/span>#nprnextgenradio<\/a> project is created in Oregon, where five talented reporters are participating in a week-long state-of-the-art training program.<\/span><\/p>\n In this project we are highlighting the experiences of people whose lives are being affected by climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Project Description” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||on||||||” text_font_size=”13px” header_font=”|700|on|on|||||” header_font_size=”25px” header_2_font=”Oswald|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#98bedb” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”29px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Photo credit: US. Govt. NOAA via flickr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/opb2022.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/07\/HanlinStandUp_final.mp4″ admin_label=”YouTube Video” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Video Teaser” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”16px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]Hanlin Wang speaks with Dan Hellin’s, an ocean coastal manager at PacWave, a wave energy test facility based off the coast near Newport, Oregon. Hellin\u2019s hope is that this wave energy development becomes an important piece of the puzzle in combating climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n From the earliest age, Dan Hellin had a plan.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re a young kid, you always have a dream of being something, y\u2019know, a fireman, a spaceman.\u201d But, Hellin said, \u201cI always wanted to be a scuba diver.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At 9, he started scuba diving with his father in Sri Lanka and Thailand, where he grew up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always snorkeled and dived, and spent time in the ocean,\u201d Hellin said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As he grew more attached to the seas, he became aware of climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n It led him to his current position as deputy director of PacWave which is a wave energy testing facility affiliated with Oregon State University. The test site will help commercial companies test equipment that would convert wave energy into electricity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/opb2022.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/07\/2022_OPB_Hanlin_MASTER.mp3″ title=”A Passion for the Sea Turned Into A Fight Against Climate Change” artist_name=”Hanlin (Patrick) Wang” album_name=”Next Generation Radio | OPB Newsroom | July 2022″ admin_label=”Story Audio” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#00bff3″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”3px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/opb2022.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/07\/Driftwood-Beach-state-park-Aug-19-2021.jpg” alt=”\u00d2The American dream is not my Indigenous dream. It’s so different than that,\u00d3 Jolie Varela said. \u00d2As an Indigenous woman, I would like to see our ceremonies restored, our traditions restored, our homelands restored, and our land back. When people come from other places and they come in the name of this American dream or in pursuit of this American dream, I don’t think they realize how that American dream erases Indigenous people, and further infringes upon our rights as Native people.\u00d3 (Photo by Jarrette Werk)” title_text=”Driftwood Beach state park Aug 19 2021″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image 3″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 3″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Dan Hellin holds a sample of drilling mud at Driftwood Beach State Park in August 2021.\u00a0 Behind Hellin is the drilling operation\u00a0 needed to install the conduits that will link PacWave\u2019s onshore testing equipment to the energy devices in the ocean. (Photo courtesy of Dan Hellin).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 2″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” width=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Having worked as a marine biologist in Bermuda and Florida, Hellin was a frontline witness to the effects of climate change on the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFor that working day to day, you know, you see coral bleaching and other effects,\u201d Hellin said. \u201c Not necessarily catastrophic at that stage, but effects that, you know, climate change was happening;\u00a0 things were changing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAlso, living in Bermuda, there was increased hurricane activity. So there’s lots of aspects that you could see that things were changing and sort of maybe a warning about what might happen if things went too far.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, if we do not reduce our carbon emissions, projections show that ocean surface waters could be more than twice as acidic as they were at the end of last century. <\/span>CO2 and Ocean Acidification | Union of Concerned Scientists (ucsusa.org)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 4a” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n “You can’t wait until things have reached a catastrophic level before you start trying to work out a solution,.” Hellin said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Along with acidification, fossil fuel-burning energy also is causing other <\/span>significant effects on the ocean: rising sea temperatures, harmful algae blooms, and many more, all harming coastal livelihoods and industry.<\/span><\/p>\n But the ocean itself can provide its effective defense.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s an <\/span>incredible source of renewable energy \u2013 ocean energy, derived from natural sources such as water and tides, that doesn\u2019t emit carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the valuable things about waves compared to some of the other [renewable energy sources], like solar and wind, is that the waves were always there,\u201d Hellin said. \u201cEven on a calm day, you’ve still got those ocean swells coming in, and waves contain a lot of power.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Increasingly, waves are getting more and more predictable as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cA lot of research has been done to predict what the waves are going to be 24 hours out, 48 hours out, 72 hours out,.\u201d Hellin said.<\/span><\/p>\n Ocean energy has great potential for human needs.\u00a0 <\/span>(The ocean \u2013 the world’s most significant ally against climate change | United Nations)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 The U.S. Energy Information <\/span>AdministrationAdminstration<\/span> says \u201c<\/span>the annual energy potential of waves off the coasts of the United States is estimated to be as much as 2.64 trillion kilowatt hours, or the equivalent of about 66% of all the electricity generated across the country in 2020.” <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>Wave power – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/opb2022.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/07\/were-getting-ready-to-go-out-on-a-research-dive-from-Key-Largo-Florida.-1996.jpg” alt=”\u00d2The American dream is not my Indigenous dream. It’s so different than that,\u00d3 Jolie Varela said. \u00d2As an Indigenous woman, I would like to see our ceremonies restored, our traditions restored, our homelands restored, and our land back. When people come from other places and they come in the name of this American dream or in pursuit of this American dream, I don’t think they realize how that American dream erases Indigenous people, and further infringes upon our rights as Native people.\u00d3 (Photo by Jarrette Werk)” title_text=”_were getting ready to go out on a research dive from Key Largo, Florida. 1996″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image 2″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 2″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Dan Hellin, pictured here in 1996, gets ready to go out on a research dive from Key Largo, Florida. During Hellin\u2019s time researching marine biology, he witnessed coral bleaching and other climate change effects impacting the oceans. (Photo courtesy of Dan Hellin).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/opb2022.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/07\/photo-3.jpg” alt=”A man with workwear and helmet sitting on a stack of long pipes facing the sunset on a construction site.” title_text=”photo 3″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image 1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The drilling crew waits to install a section of PacWave\u2019s underground cable conduit. The testing facility at Driftwood Beach State Park, in Seal Rock, Oregon has four, 1-mile long conduits running out from the parking lot to about three quarters of a mile offshore. 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