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Puget Sound Voices

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The Puget Sound watershed has gone through extraordinary change in just a few decades. As conservation groups wrestle with ways to protect the region’s environment, a key priority in many cases is also to “restore” Puget Sound to its former health. But what is a healthy Puget Sound? To what condition do we seek to restore it? In short, what was the environment of Puget Sound like? These questions are often answered in quantifiable terms like salmon counts or any number of ecosystem indicators, from shellfish beds to measurements of […]

PSP Science Panel elects Joe Gaydos new chair

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Joe Gaydos has been elected Chair of the Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel, and will assume the gavel on January 25th. Bill Labiosa will serve as Vice Chair. The Science Panel is an adviser to the Puget Sound Partnership (PSP) as it plans and prepares restoration efforts for the Puget Sound region. Panel members are appointed by the PSP Leadership Council and are chosen from leading scientists around Washington State. The Science Panel also serves as an adviser to the Puget Sound Institute. Gaydos is the Chief Scientist for the […]

PSI staff and interns in the media

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The PSI-sponsored summer intern program is featured this week in a story on the University of Washington Tacoma website, “Interning for a greener future at Center for Urban Waters.” You can also read about PSI’s Managing Editor Jeff Rice in a recent profile in Outside magazine.

2012 Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel members announced

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On December 6th, the Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel announced two new members, Tracy Collier and John Stein, as well as the renewed membership of current Science Panel Chair Jan Newton.

Usha Varanasi named Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Center for Urban Waters

Dr. Usha Varanasi
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The Puget Sound Institute is proud to announce that Dr. Usha Varanasi will be joining the Center for Urban Waters as its first Distinguished Scholar in Residence. Her leadership and vision have had deep and lasting impacts in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, including her involvement in establishing the Center for Urban Waters, and her long term service to the University of Washington as affiliate professor with the Chemistry department and School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.

PSI launches bimonthly newsletter

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Welcome to the University of Washington Puget Sound Institute, and to our first newsletter. The Institute began almost exactly one year ago with a simple idea: There can and should be better communication among scientists working to protect and restore the Salish Sea ecosystem. Coordinated, system-wide knowledge is vital to effective science and policy (see: About the Institute). Based at the University of Washington Tacoma with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Puget Sound Institute was established in December 2010 to conduct, coordinate, and communicate regional research that […]