South Salem grad wants to protect Oregon coastal communities through better engineering

Inessa Garrey in the large wave flume at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University in 2019 (Courtesy photo)

Inessa Garrey wants to make sure coastal communities will survive imminent natural disasters brought on by climate change.

As the 19-year-old South Salem High School graduate sees it, communities on the coast are on the frontline of climate change and their vulnerability is an issue that needs to be addressed now, not years…