The Puget Sound Partnership has released for final review its 2012 Action Agenda Update, and is accepting comments from the public until July 13th. The Action Agenda is described as “a road map” for protection and restoration of Puget Sound, and is updated biennially. Visit the Partnership’s Action Agenda Update Center to view the entire […]
June 19, 2012
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound now online
A beta version of the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound is now online. Find hundreds of descriptive articles, maps and other media related to Puget Sound ecosystem science at eopugetsound.org. Give us your feedback. Tell us what you would like to see on EoPS pages in the future, and find out how you or your organization […]
June 19, 2012
Puget Sound Institute welcomes Visiting Scholar Nicole Faghin
The Puget Sound Institute is pleased to welcome Nicole Faghin as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Urban Waters. Faghin serves as a Coastal Management Specialist at Washington Sea Grant, and will act as a bridge between the two organizations, strengthening and developing potentials for collaboration. She will also coordinate the third National Working […]
June 19, 2012
Puget Sound is calling: Download EoPS ringtones
The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound has ringtones! Download free mp3 calls of select Puget Sound species to your smartphone.
June 19, 2012
CUW and PSI welcome summer interns
The Center for Urban Waters welcomes nine interns to kick off the second year of its summer internship program. Internships will include collaborations with several Puget Sound area organizations and programs, including the Puget Sound Institute, the Washington Stormwater Center, the Joint Institute of the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, and SoundCitizen. Projects will […]
June 19, 2012
Open Standards Summit held in Seattle
Earlier this month, the Puget Sound Institute and Puget Sound Partnership brought together conservation practitioners from around the region to share information about the use of Open Standards, CAP and the practice of adaptive management in the Puget Sound region.
June 14, 2012
Frontloading the science in anticipation of environmental disasters
A recent paper by Center for Urban Waters Distinguished Scholar in Residence Usha Varanasi discusses the decline in America’s baseline ability to use science to plan for and assess highly likely environmental disasters, such as oil spills. This article first appeared in the May 2012 issue of the journal Fisheries, published by the American Fisheries […]
June 7, 2012
Recent paper shows unarmored sites in Puget Sound taxa-rich
A recent publication in Estuaries and Coasts investigates the impacts of shoreline armoring along the Duwamish River estuary in Central Puget Sound on salmon diets, invertebrate communities and environmental conditions.
May 25, 2012
Summer internships available
The Center for Urban Waters and the Puget Sound Institute have several opportunities for energetic undergraduate students to join our UW research programs this summer. These paid positions are an excellent opportunity to gain valuable research experience by working side-by-side with environmental professionals engaged in significant regional projects. Currently enrolled students and recent graduates with […]
May 4, 2012
Puget Sound species
Creating a checklist of the species of the Puget Sound watershed sounded simple enough. It was one of the first orders of business for the new Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. If you are going to try to create a comprehensive collection of information about a natural system, it makes sense to first find out what […]