The Puget Sound Instititute and the Center for Urban Waters welcome seven student interns this summer. This is the third year for our internship program, which offers students and recent graduates the chance to work with post-doctoral, and professional scientists on a range of research projects— from field sampling and lab work to multimedia production for the Encyclopedia […]
June 19, 2013
PSI Director featured in radio story about microplastics
PSI Director Dr. Joel Baker was interviewed about microplastics for a story airing June 19th on WYPR in Baltimore. Listen at: http://www.wypr.org/podcast/6-19-13-oceans-swimming-microplastic-particles …
June 13, 2013
Article in Kitsap Sun features PSI researchers
An article in the June 13th issue of the Kitsap Sun features the Center for Urban Waters/Puget Sound Institute research partnership with the Kitsap Public Health District. Read the article: Kitsap Sun: New method could reveal presence of human waste
May 30, 2013
Crosscut profiles PSI herring research; Kitsap Sun covers pollution study
PSI-related research was featured in two different articles in the press on May 30th. The Kitsap Sun featured PSI research in emerging contaminants, while Crosscut profiled a PSI herring study. Read the articles: Kitsap Sun: New water study could reveal human sources of pollution Crosscut: A thrill for Washington ecologists: New herring populations
April 29, 2013
Media: Puget Sound scuba pioneer
Puget Sound science owes a debt to the researchers and explorers who got there first. We profile some of these important figures in an occasional series we call Puget Sound Voices. Today we feature Vern Morgas, one of Puget Sound’s first scuba divers. Vern Morgas (second from the left) and friends
February 28, 2013
Characterizing coastal foodwebs
PSI’s Tessa Francis is co-author of a new paper in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. The paper, “Characterizing coastal foodwebs with qualitative links to bridge the gap between the theory and the practice of ecosystem-based management” uses qualitative modeling to compare management actions in Puget Sound, Chesapeake Bay and Galveston Bay. The authors examine loop analysis […]
February 28, 2013
Caffeine and other tracers used to target wastewater pollution
Your daily coffee habit may someday help identify sources of bacterial pollution in Puget Sound. Researchers at the Puget Sound Institute are developing a new tool for targeting leaky septic tanks that may have broader implications for studies of emerging contaminants.
February 28, 2013
From the field: PSI forage fish study
PSI Research Scientist Tessa Francis sends us this photo of herring eggs on eelgrass (click photo to enlarge), part of a new forage fish study in collaboration with NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The study, which began earlier this month examines the possible link between eelgrass abundance […]
February 27, 2013
Baker lab alum Holly Bamford named director of NOAA’s National Ocean Service
Earlier this month, NOAA announced a familiar name to head its National Ocean Service (NOS). Holly Bamford has been a longtime collaborator with the Center for Urban Waters through our joint study of marine microplastics as leader of NOAA’s Marine Debris Program. Bamford also received her master’s degree and doctorate in environmental chemistry studying with […]
December 14, 2012
The calculus of forage fish: an interview with Marc Mangel
By Jeff Rice One of the first things that many budding ecologists learn, often to their chagrin, is that they probably should have paid more attention in Math. Of all the biological sciences, ecology may be the most fundamentally rooted in numbers. Not only is it the study of distribution and abundance—where and how many?—but […]