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Engaging High School Juniors And Seniors At The Ocean Research College Academy As Researchers In A Two Year Study Of An Estuary In The Salish Sea, Ardi Kveven
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
The Ocean Research College Academy, an interdisciplinary, two year program at Everett Community College, has been utilizing the Salish Sea as a classroom for the past 16 years. Through embedded localized research in an estuary, enrolled 11th and 12th grade students conduct original research on the State of Possession Sound (SOPS) Project. This project is the backbone of the first year curriculum, where 60 students work collaboratively asking questions and gathering water quality data about the local estuary. Students analyze and interpret complex datasets that include temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, chlorophyll concentrations, and turbidity coupled with tidal influence. As …
Assessing Biological Condition In Small Streams Of The Puget Sound Lowlands Through Collaborative Regional Monitoring, Richard Sheibley, Curtis Degasperi, Chad Larson, Brandi Lubliner, Leska S. Fore, Keunyea Song
Assessing Biological Condition In Small Streams Of The Puget Sound Lowlands Through Collaborative Regional Monitoring, Richard Sheibley, Curtis Degasperi, Chad Larson, Brandi Lubliner, Leska S. Fore, Keunyea Song
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
In 2015, the condition of Puget Sound Lowland streams was evaluated by collecting data for stream invertebrates, algae, water and sediment quality, and instream and riparian habitat. The study was designed and implemented as part of the Stormwater Action Monitoring program, a collaborative, regional stormwater monitoring program funded by more than 90 Western Washington cities and counties, the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, and the Washington State Department of Transportation. The goal of this long term program is to inform stakeholders on the status and trends of small streams within the Puget Lowlands and to track whether stream condition improves …
Big Sharks In The Salish Sea: Combining Passive Acoustics With The Salish Sea Model To Predict Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus Griseus) Presence, Alli Cramer, Steve Katz, Kelly Andrews, Daniel H. Thornton
Big Sharks In The Salish Sea: Combining Passive Acoustics With The Salish Sea Model To Predict Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus Griseus) Presence, Alli Cramer, Steve Katz, Kelly Andrews, Daniel H. Thornton
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
Examination of species-environment relationships that determine broad-scale distribution patterns is a key focus of ecological research. Characterizing animal-habitat associations in the marine environment is particularly challenging given the opacity of the ocean, and addressing this question in marine systems has consequently lagged behind terrestrial systems. In this project, we have leveraged existing data on locations of a large marine predator, the Sixgill Shark, Hexanchus griseus, and linked that with the PNNL’s Salish Sea Model over the domain of shark movement in Puget Sound, Washington state. Twenty-nine Sixgill sharks were tracked from 2005-2009 across 130 hydrophone receivers with tags that reported …
Source, Transport, And Age Of Sediment From Cascade Volcano Watersheds To The Nearshore: Insights For Contaminant And Ecological Studies, Renee Takesue, Kathy Conn, Margaret Dutch
Source, Transport, And Age Of Sediment From Cascade Volcano Watersheds To The Nearshore: Insights For Contaminant And Ecological Studies, Renee Takesue, Kathy Conn, Margaret Dutch
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
Inputs of sediment and sediment-bound contaminants from urbanized watersheds to the nearshore region are a growing concern as coastal populations increase around the Salish Sea and worldwide. Geochemical sourcing and aging of nearshore sediment is one potential way to: a) distinguish land-derived sediment in nearshore environments, b) gain insights about how sediment and contaminants are redistributed, and c) determine how recently they were deposited. Sediments from Cascade volcanoes have distinct geochemical compositions that allow discrimination between land-derived (volcanic) and marine (lowland) sediment. As sediment is transported by rivers to the nearshore, it adsorbs particle-reactive contaminants and short-lived radionuclides, and the …
Developing A Regional Protocol For Photo-Id Of Harbor Porpoise, Phocoena Phocoena, In The Salish Sea Through Transboundary Collaboration, Cindy Elliser, Anna Hall, Katrina Maciver, Marcus Wernicke
Developing A Regional Protocol For Photo-Id Of Harbor Porpoise, Phocoena Phocoena, In The Salish Sea Through Transboundary Collaboration, Cindy Elliser, Anna Hall, Katrina Maciver, Marcus Wernicke
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are one of the most common cetaceans in the Salish Sea. However little is known about this species’ regional and fine-scale habitat use patterns. Photo-identification (photo-ID) is a key tool that has long been used with other cetacean species in the Salish Sea (e.g. Orcinus orca) to understand ecological parameters including site fidelity, habitat use, ranging patterns, and group dynamics. This technique had not previously been applied to Salish Sea harbor porpoise research until 2014 when Pacific Mammal Research (PacMam) initiated a long-term photo-ID study of harbor porpoises off Fidalgo Island, WA. This demonstrated the viability …
Policy, Science, Economics And Culture At A Crossroads: Restoring The Deschutes River Estuary, Dave Peeler, Sue Patnude
Policy, Science, Economics And Culture At A Crossroads: Restoring The Deschutes River Estuary, Dave Peeler, Sue Patnude
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
The potential restoration of the Deschutes Estuary in South Puget Sound has raised a unique set of disparate policy, scientific, economic and cultural interests and perspectives. The Deschutes River Estuary historically provided habitat for an abundance of shellfish and a large estuarine area for migrating salmonids at the southern extreme of Puget Sound. In 1951 the State constructed a dam across the estuary, totally transforming the estuary and creating Capitol Lake, a freshwater body. The dam also provided a transportation route to West Olympia across Budd Inlet. Creation of the lake also transformed the habitat, hydrology and water quality of …
Investigating Algicidal And Growth-Inhibiting Bacteria Associated With Seagrass And Macroalgae Beds In Puget Sound, Nobuharu Inaba
Investigating Algicidal And Growth-Inhibiting Bacteria Associated With Seagrass And Macroalgae Beds In Puget Sound, Nobuharu Inaba
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) caused by the fish-killing raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo and the neuro-toxic dinoflagellate of the genus Alexandrium, impact finfish and shellfish aquaculture in Puget Sound including Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), oysters (Crassostrea gigas; Ostrea lurida), mussels (Mytilus edulis), geoducks (Panopea generosa), etc. Previous studies in Japan have demonstrated that the density of algicidal bacteria (AB) and gowth-inhibiting bacteria (GIB) detected from biofilm on the seagrass Zostera marina was remarkably high. During the summer of 2012, using methods developed in Japan, we sampled the leaves of Z. marina and adjacent water from 14 sites in the Puget Sound. In …
State Of Possession Sound Interdisciplinary Student Research, Ardi Kveven, Robin Araniva
State Of Possession Sound Interdisciplinary Student Research, Ardi Kveven, Robin Araniva
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
The Ocean Research College Academy, an interdisciplinary early college program at Everett Community College, created an ecosystem study in 2004 that imbeds core instructional outcomes with ongoing baseline estuary research. Through the blending of the original State of the Sound Report (2004) and Species of Concern (2005), multiple hydrographic and biological parameters are measured on monthly State of Possession Sound (SOPS) student research cruises. Students collect and analyze marine mammal and marine bird abundance and distribution, CTD data, nutrient concentrations, pH and fecal coliform levels, sediment samples for heavy metal analysis (As, Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn), and phytoplankton and …
Roofing Materials Assessment - Investigation Of Toxic Chemicals In Roof Runoff, Nancy Winters
Roofing Materials Assessment - Investigation Of Toxic Chemicals In Roof Runoff, Nancy Winters
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
The Washington state Department of Ecology recently partnered with roofing manufacturers, their associations, municipal stormwater programs, and environmental stakeholders to design and conduct a study to assess toxic chemicals in the stormwater runoff from roofing materials. This interdisciplinary team, know as the Roofing Task Force (RTF), brought together experts in roofing materials and manufacturing processes, roof coatings, stormwater quality, and regulatory requirements. By working together the RTF and Ecology leveraged their collective knowledge to design a more robust study. The study was designed to understand whether the premise that roofing runoff is a contributor to degrading water quality in the …