Check out a preview of the Puget Sound Institute’s forthcoming Encyclopedia of Puget Sound at the University of Washington Water Symposium this Wednesday, April 18th. Members of the PSI will be available to answer questions and show screenshots of our latest page designs. We’ll also be asking for your feedback. Send us an email, or […]
April 16, 2012
PSP finalizes Biennial Science Work Plan
The Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel has finalized its Biennial Science Work Plan for 2011-2013, and will present the document to the Leadership Council for approval on April 26th.
April 16, 2012
UW Water Symposium this week
2012 University of Washington Water Symposium The Center for Urban Waters and the Puget Sound Institute host the 2012 University of Washington Water Symposium this Wednesday, April 18th. The symposium will be held on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus at the Center for Urban Horticulture, and includes speakers and poster presentations on a variety […]
February 22, 2012
PSI collaborates with NOAA on Puget Sound maps
The Puget Sound Institute is collaborating with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to enhance a new web-based mapping resource for Puget Sound. The project will utilize NOAA’s Environmental Response Management Application® (ERMA) within the Institute’s forthcoming Encyclopedia of Puget Sound to bring together a wide array of GIS and oceanographic data. ERMA was […]
February 22, 2012
New PSP science hires
Dave Peeler and Leska Fore have joined the Puget Sound Partnership’s science team to support the monitoring program.
February 22, 2012
Is beer toxic to Puget Sound?
Recently spotted in Grist.org: SoundCitizen founder Rick Keil and new PSP Science Panel member Tracy Collier weigh in— Is it OK to pour beer down the drain?
February 22, 2012
Study shows Puget Sound “artificially flavored”
A recent study by UW undergraduates at SoundCitizen, which recently moved from Oceanography to the Center for Urban Waters, shows that Puget Sound is awash in vanilla, pain relievers and other man-made compounds.
February 22, 2012
Joe Gaydos begins term as Science Panel Chair
Newly elected Chair of the Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel Joe Gaydos began his term on January 25th, with Bill Labiosa serving as Vice Chair. Gaydos is the Chief Scientist for the SeaDoc Society, a marine ecosystem health program of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center. Gaydos has been a member of the Science Panel […]
February 21, 2012
Expanded document archive; Puget Sound Science Review; Water Symposium
Visit our expanded document archive. The Puget Sound Institute has scanned and uploaded more than two-dozen documents covering 25 years of Puget Sound science, including all available “State of the Sound” and Georgia Basin/Salish Sea conference proceedings. Take a journey back to 1986, or fast forward to the recently posted proceedings of the 2011 Salish […]
February 21, 2012
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” meets Puget Sound research
PSI/Urban Waters post-doctoral researcher Justin P. Miller-Schulze was recently the lead author on a paper published in Atmospheric Environment, “Characteristics of fine particle carbonaceous aerosol at two remote sites in Central Asia,” and a co-author on a paper in Environmental Science and Technology, “Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of Fine and Coarse Particulate Matter inside […]