Visit our expanded document archive at: http://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/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 […]
February 21, 2012
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” meets Puget Sound research
PSI/Urban Waters post-doctoral researcher Justin P. Miller-Schulze was recently the lead author on a paper published in Atmospheric Environment, “Characteristics of fine particle carbonaceous aerosol at two remote sites in Central Asia,” and a co-author on a paper in Environmental Science and Technology, “Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of Fine and Coarse Particulate Matter inside […]
February 21, 2012
Evaluating and ranking ecosystem indicators
Puget Sound Institute Research Scientist Andy James is co-author of a paper this month in the journal Environmental Management. The paper, “A Methodology for Evaluating and Ranking Water Quantity Indicators in Support of Ecosystem-based Management” uses Puget Sound as a case study, describing frameworks for identifying and ranking ecosystem indicators. Authors include: C. Andrew James, Jessi Kershner, […]
February 21, 2012
PSI welcomes incoming Puget Sound Scholar Tessa Francis
We are excited to announce that Tessa Francis is the newest member of the Puget Sound Institute team, and begins her appointment as a Research Scientist at the end of this month.
February 21, 2012
PSI plans second Human Dimensions workshop
The Puget Sound Institute plans a second Human Dimensions workshop to develop a social science strategy for Puget Sound ecosystem recovery.
February 16, 2012
Sound and Vision documentary
Those who missed yesterday’s showing at the Seattle Aquarium may want to attend a free screening on February 27th of the new documentary Sound and Vision, by filmmaker Eric Becker. The film was produced by the People for Puget Sound, and is “told through the the stories of people working to clean up, protect and […]
January 24, 2012
Puget Sound Voices
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 […]
January 12, 2012
Still no zebra mussels in Washington
Hard to tell if this news is positive or foreboding, but the Puget Sound region starts another year with a clean bill of health on at least one front. The Washington Invasive Species Council reports that Washington is one of only five Western states remaining with no invasion of zebra mussels. That’s good for Washington […]
January 5, 2012
Please comment on Puget Sound Biennial Science Workplan by Feb 3rd
The Puget Sound Science Panel invites your comments on their Biennial Science Work Plan by February 3, 2012. Comments are also solicited by the Puget Sound Partnership on its Puget Sound Action Agenda. View the PDF documents directly: Draft Biennial Science Work Plan (in one PDF file) Draft Action Agenda Update (in one PDF file) […]
December 15, 2011
Cacophony of snow geese
A mention in The Seattle Times this morning inspired today’s blog. The arrival of winter also means the arrival of snow geese on the Skagit Delta. A great spot for viewing the geese is the area near Fir Island, a nexus of agricultural fields and tidal wetlands that serve as a critical stop for birds along […]