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 […]
April 28, 2013
Scaling the Ocean Health Index to Puget Sound
The Puget Sound Institute and the Puget Sound Partnership co-hosted a panel earlier this month to discuss the Ocean Health Index (OHI) and its relevance to Puget Sound. The April 2nd panel was held at the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma, and featured OHI project lead Ben Halpern of UC Santa Barbara.
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 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 […]