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Eyes Over Puget Sound

By Jeff Rice
Published July 18, 2013
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Take a flight with Dr. Christopher Krembs of Eyes Over Puget Sound. View an audio slideshow on the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound Youtube channel.

The float plane prepares to take off. Photo by Jeff Rice.
The float plane prepares to take off. Photo by Jeff Rice.

Eyes Over Puget Sound distributes a popular monthly report combining high resolution aerial photographs with satellite and ground-truthed monitoring data for Puget Sound surface conditions. The program was started by Dr. Krembs of the Department of Ecology’s Marine Monitoring Unit to take advantage of a routine transit flight between Seattle and Olympia. Four times a month, the plane flies to Olympia to pick up members of Ecology’s water monitoring team to conduct sampling at 40 sites throughout Puget Sound. Krembs uses the opportunity, and the unique vantage point, to photograph and report on surface conditions ranging from the latest algal blooms to jellyfish migrations and oil spills.

A while back, Dr. Krembs graciously allowed us to ride along on one of these flights and take some pictures of our own. Read more about Eyes Over Puget Sound on PSI’s Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. Special thanks to Dr. Krembs and Kenmore Air for the opportunity to join the flight.