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The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with local governments, and state and federal agencies is planning a “Floodplains by Design” workshop for Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at the Edmonds Conference Center from 9:00 to 3:00. Those involved in floodplains management in the region are invited to attend. The partnership extends from a new allocation of $33 million in funding from the Washington State legislature “to advance 9 important floodplain projects in Puget Sound.”
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07/03/2013
The journal Coastal Management has issued a call for abstracts for a special theme issue focusing on "The State of the Social Sciences in Puget Sound Recovery." Abstracts are due July 21st, and full manuscripts (upon invitation) will be due October 1, 2013. Co-Guest Editors are Katharine F. Wellman of the PSP Science Panel and Kelly Biedenweg of the University of Washington Puget Sound Institute.
07/03/2013
We are pleased to announce a number of new features on our Maps/GIS page. We have improved access to the maps and data from our collaboration with NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration. Nigel Heinsius at UW Creative Communications created a slick new interface that allows users to view GIS metadata without leaving the EoPS website, and there are also many new map layers.
06/07/2013
Scientists recognize the importance of floodplains to both humans and the ecosystem. The USGS estimates that valley bottom areas cover about 5% of the Puget Sound basin, but are the site of 30% of highly developed urban areas and 70% of cultivated land. Healthy floodplains are also a key ingredient for salmon health. Studies show that they promote faster salmon growth, and increased productivity, among other benefits.
05/19/2013
The Puget Sound Institute seeks a student intern to assist with production and research at the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound.
05/12/2013
The Puget Sound Institute has invited representatives from seven major ecosystem recovery projects for a two-day workshop, May 14th and 15th in Seattle. Participants will represent Chesapeake Bay, Everglades, Long Island Sound, San Joaquin/Sacramento Delta, Columbia River Estuary, the Louisiana Coast and Puget Sound. The meetings will focus on the role of science in large-scale ecosystem recovery efforts.
05/03/2013
If you missed the 2013 UW Water Symposium, you can find some of the highlights on Twitter at #h2o2013.
Congratulations to Lara Pracht, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, for winning the Best Student Poster award for her poster "The Influence of Reducing Rice Field Irrigation Recharge on Groundwater Arsenic Concentrations in Bangladesh."
04/18/2013
You can still register for the April 30th Water Symposium at the University of Washington Seattle campus. Themes this year will include ocean acidification, water and energy and climate adaptation. Presenters so far include scientists from NOAA/Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA/PMEL, EcoAdapt Cascadia Consulting, PNNL's Marine Sciences Lab, Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center and the University of Washington. Read more at the Center for Urban Waters homepage.
04/03/2013
The Ocean Health Index (OHI) project lead Ben Halpern of UC Santa Barbara was at the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma yesterday to discuss the applicability of the OHI to the Puget Sound scale. Halpern's group will be engaging in discussions along these lines with the the Puget Sound Partnership through the spring and summer.
04/01/2013
The Puget Sound Institute and the Puget Sound Partnership are co-hosting a discussion panel on Tuesday, April 2nd, about the Ocean Health Index and its scaleability to Puget Sound. Panelists include Ben Halpern, Ray Hilborn and Phil Levin. The event is at the Center for Urban Waters (Commencement Bay South) from 9AM – noon. Look for a followup in this blog after the event.
03/26/2013
Some historic conservation news related to the greater Puget Sound watershed yesterday. President Obama formally announced the establishment of the San Juan Islands National Monument. This creates additional protection for almost 1000 acres of undeveloped federal land in the San Juan archipelago.
03/18/2013
Puget Sound Institute research scientist Tessa Francis reports a "lion country safari" on Hood Canal today. Thousands of spawning herring churned the otherwise calm waters of the canal, while other wildlife gathered to feed on the fish and their eggs.
03/04/2013
There's open-access. Then there's open access—or more emphatically, Open Access. Other versions include Open Knowledge, Open Science and Open Content. Sometimes you'll see several of these variations on a single web page. The Obama administration, for its part, went with "public access" a couple of weeks ago when it called for free access to research using federal funds.
03/01/2013
The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound species library now includes a list of species of concern in the Salish Sea watershed. The list was created by Joe Gaydos and Nicholas Brown of the SeaDoc Society, and was released as a paper presented as part of the Proceedings of the 2011 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference in Vancouver, B.C.
02/28/2013
Scientists and policymakers often refer generally to the "Puget Sound ecosystem." Hundreds of millions of dollars go toward its protection. Scientists and sociologists study it, and there is an assumption that we know what it is.
02/08/2013
Fresh from the field: Puget Sound Institute (PSI) research scientist Tessa Francis sent us this photo of herring eggs on eelgrass today.
02/07/2013
Funds will be available for research projects from social science investigators at academic and research institutes, government agencies and other professional consultancies to conduct research on Puget Sound ecosystem service values. As much as $200,000 will be available to support up to three 18-month projects selected through an open, competitive, peer-reviewed process. Interdisciplinary partnerships are encouraged.
02/02/2013
Satellite tagging has become an important tool for tracking Puget Sound's Southern Resident Killer Whale populations. You can view maps that follow the whales' movements this winter. NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center placed a tag on an adult male dubbed K25, in Puget Sound last Dec. 29th and scientists have been excitedly following the whale to California and back again.
01/25/2013
Anyone who has been following the news in academic publishing these days has heard the words "open access." There are many definitions of open access, but in the simplest terms, it means free access to scholarly or peer-reviewed research.
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