By Alicia Lawver, Puget Sound Partnership The Puget Sound Partnership is excited to announce the 2012 update to the Action Agenda, which outlines the region’s priorities and actions to address the foundational elements of a healthy Puget Sound: our economy, environment, human health, and quality of life.
Category: September 2012
Welcoming new Puget Sound Partnership executive director
By Alicia Lawver, Puget Sound Partnership Col. Anthony Wright, retired Army Corps of Engineers district engineer, was appointed by Gov. Chris Gregoire in July to lead the Puget Sound Partnership.The Partnership is the backbone organization that coordinates the efforts of citizens, governments, tribes, scientists and businesses to set priorities, implement a regional recovery plan and …
PSI welcomes three new researchers
The Puget Sound Institute is pleased to welcome three new researchers to the Center for Urban Waters this fall.
Exploring quality of life and human well-being in Puget Sound restoration
By Kelly Biedenweg, Puget Sound Institute Throughout Puget Sound, government and non-government land management agencies are increasingly interested in considering the human aspects of restoration management. So far, this exploration has looked mostly at how humans influence the natural world: the pollution caused by failing septic systems or agricultural runoff or the decline in …
Georeferencing the Burke Museum herpetology collection
The Puget Sound Institute recently collaborated with the Burke Museum at the University of Washington to georeference the museum’s herpetology collection.
PSI to convene study panel for forage fish
The Puget Sound Institute is assembling a study panel to focus on science priorities for regional forage fish conservation. The panel stems from a recent symposium at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs: Conservation and Ecology of Marine Forage Fishes in Puget Sound.
Studying nitrogen impacts from septic tanks and alder trees in Hood Canal
By Amelia Apfel, for the Puget Sound Institute As part of a series of long-term studies, Puget Sound Institute scientist Andy James is collaborating with Julie Horowitz of the Hood Canal Coordinating Council and Mike Brett and Mark Benjamin at the University of Washington to complete an evaluation of the fate of various human-associated nitrogen …
Upcoming events: Encyclopedia of Puget Sound kickoff and panel discussion
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.
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.
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 …
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.