The PSI’s Encyclopedia of Puget Sound is hosting a website kickoff event on October 24th! Join us for a panel discussion and reception to celebrate the launch of a new effort to synthesize and share scientific information about Puget Sound recovery.
September 26, 2012
New papers from PSI researchers focus on ecosystem services and human ecology
New papers from Puget Sound Institute researchers run the gamut from studies of ecosystem services and management to human ecology and river recreation in the Puget Sound lowland.
September 18, 2012
PSI review finds minimal evidence for human impacts on Hood Canal hypoxia
An independent review convened by the Puget Sound Institute is featured in findings released by the Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Ecology that there is currently “no compelling evidence” that humans are the cause for recent trends in declines in dissolved oxygen in Hood Canal. [Read the Draft EPA and Ecology Report […]
August 21, 2012
PSI partners with UW Climate Impacts Group
If you ask a scientist what they consider to be the most significant threat to the health of the Puget Sound ecosystem, more often than not they will point to climate change. The impacts will touch almost every facet of Puget Sound ecology.
June 19, 2012
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound now online
A beta version of the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound is now online. Find hundreds of descriptive articles, maps and other media related to Puget Sound ecosystem science at eopugetsound.org. Give us your feedback. Tell us what you would like to see on EoPS pages in the future, and find out how you or your organization […]
June 19, 2012
Puget Sound is calling: Download EoPS ringtones
The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound has ringtones! Download free mp3 calls of select Puget Sound species to your smartphone.
June 19, 2012
Open Standards Summit held in Seattle
Earlier this month, the Puget Sound Institute and Puget Sound Partnership brought together conservation practitioners from around the region to share information about the use of Open Standards, CAP and the practice of adaptive management in the Puget Sound region.
June 19, 2012
CUW and PSI welcome summer interns
The Center for Urban Waters welcomes nine interns to kick off the second year of its summer internship program. Internships will include collaborations with several Puget Sound area organizations and programs, including the Puget Sound Institute, the Washington Stormwater Center, the Joint Institute of the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, and SoundCitizen. Projects will […]
June 19, 2012
Puget Sound Institute welcomes Visiting Scholar Nicole Faghin
The Puget Sound Institute is pleased to welcome Nicole Faghin as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Urban Waters. Faghin serves as a Coastal Management Specialist at Washington Sea Grant, and will act as a bridge between the two organizations, strengthening and developing potentials for collaboration. She will also coordinate the third National Working […]
June 14, 2012
Frontloading the science in anticipation of environmental disasters
A recent paper by Center for Urban Waters Distinguished Scholar in Residence Usha Varanasi discusses the decline in America’s baseline ability to use science to plan for and assess highly likely environmental disasters, such as oil spills. This article first appeared in the May 2012 issue of the journal Fisheries, published by the American Fisheries […]