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December 17, 2024

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Grant will support training in collaborative leadership 

The Collaborative Leadership Program at the Puget Sound Institute (PSI) will receive almost $500,000 to train the next generation of collaborative policy makers. The new project will build on lessons from Puget Sound’s groundbreaking history of salmon co-management and other natural resource policies.  The support comes from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Puget Sound […]
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Grants

December 16, 2024

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Protecting the health of people who eat fish: The long battle over water quality standards

Culminating more than a decade of fierce debate, Washington state officials formally adopted new water-quality standards for toxic chemicals to protect the health of people who eat fish from our local waterways. On its face, this action appears inconsequential, considering that these numerical criteria were already in place, having been imposed two years ago by […]
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Blog Post

December 16, 2024

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Ask a scientist: What is a distributary channel?

In a natural state, a river passing through a floodplain will have many side channels and tendrils that distribute the water, fanning it out across the delta. However, these channels are often lost when rivers are diverted to make room for farmland or other human development. In many cases, even after the dikes and levees […]
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Blog Post

December 12, 2024

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Annual report documents Puget Sound’s marine conditions

The Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program (PSEMP) has released its 13th annual overview of Puget Sound’s marine water conditions. The report is funded in part by the Puget Sound Institute and is produced by 67 contributors from federal, tribal, state, and local agencies, academia, nonprofits, and private and volunteer groups.  The compilation looks back on the […]
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Findings

December 11, 2024

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January 7 roundtable will share insights from ‘End-to-End’ ecosystem modeling of the Strait of Georgia

Co-hosted with the Fisheries & Oceans Canada from 12:30 – 1:30 pm PT  The Salish Sea Science Roundtable online speaker series continues on Tuesday, January 7 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm. How have ocean conditions, lower trophic level dynamics, and species interactions shaped the Strait of Georgia’s marine ecosystem over the past 40 years? What long-term […]
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Events

November 14, 2024

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December 3 roundtable will share emerging results from the Whidbey Basin Cumulative Effects Evaluation

Co-hosted with the Puget Sound Partnership from 12:30 – 1:30 pm PT  The Salish Sea Science Roundtable online speaker series continues on Tuesday, December 3 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm. The roundtable will describe ongoing work to address the cumulative effects of restoration in the Whidbey Basin using synthesis methodology rooted in causal analysis. We will describe the […]
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