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Turning The Tide On Abandoned, Wrecked And Derelict Vessels In The Salish Sea, Michelle Young, Hilary Wilkinson, Troy Wood, Jeffrey Johnson, Jennifer Mcintyre Apr 2022

Turning The Tide On Abandoned, Wrecked And Derelict Vessels In The Salish Sea, Michelle Young, Hilary Wilkinson, Troy Wood, Jeffrey Johnson, Jennifer Mcintyre

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Abandoned, wrecked and derelict vessels in the Salish Sea pose environmental contamination and safety risks. They are also visual eyesores. Untended vessels end up adrift, washed ashore, sunk, or broken apart, releasing fuel and other toxins into the marine environment. The debris and contaminants put marine life and sensitive habitats at risk, endanger mariners and beachgoers, cause harm to shoreline infrastructure, use valuable community resources, and impact the rights and traditions of indigenous peoples. The challenges are also compounded by conflicting jurisdictions between various levels of government dependent on the location, type and impact of the vessel, as well as …

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Rights Of The Salish Sea: A Major Paradigm Shift And An Innovative Legal Framework, Dr. Robin Reid, M. Kai Sanburn, Elisabeth Robson, Anne Whirledge-Karp, Chom S. Greacen, Julienne Battalia, Terry Marshall Apr 2022

Rights Of The Salish Sea: A Major Paradigm Shift And An Innovative Legal Framework, Dr. Robin Reid, M. Kai Sanburn, Elisabeth Robson, Anne Whirledge-Karp, Chom S. Greacen, Julienne Battalia, Terry Marshall

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Across the world, local to national governments are experimenting with recognizing the rights of the non-human environment. This is called the ‘rights of nature’. Euro-American law treats nature as property to be used and managed by humans. Rights of nature recognizes the rights of the environment to grow, thrive and be healthy, independent of humans. Indigenous Peoples often take the lead in these initiatives, as in the Maori-led rights of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Whanganui River and Ojibwe-led rights of manoomin (wild rice). In the transboundary Salish Sea, there are growing efforts to implement this innovative rights framework. One such effort is …

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Shifting Population Patterns Of Lingcod In A 25 Year Study In A Marine Park, Kirby Johnson, Ken Collins Apr 2022

Shifting Population Patterns Of Lingcod In A 25 Year Study In A Marine Park, Kirby Johnson, Ken Collins

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Shifting Population Patterns of Lingcod in a 25 Year Study in a Marine Park The Edmonds Underwater Park has been a marine reserve since 1970. Beginning in 1996 and continuing for 25 years, there has been systematic observation of lingcod and an annual census of their nesting. The census over the years can be defined in three phases; an initial phase comprised of many volunteers developing and refining the protocol, a second phase of fewer observers using a mature process and the final phase with methodology refined for a small number of observers. The 25 years can also be generally …

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Spatial Distribution Of Tidal Currents And Quantification Of Transport Timescales In The Salish Sea – Data/Model Synthesis, Lakshitha Premathilake, Tarang Khangaonkar, Adi Nugraha, Sukyong Yun Apr 2022

Spatial Distribution Of Tidal Currents And Quantification Of Transport Timescales In The Salish Sea – Data/Model Synthesis, Lakshitha Premathilake, Tarang Khangaonkar, Adi Nugraha, Sukyong Yun

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The tidal currents and tide-induced transport in major basins and sub-basins were studied at a Salish Sea-wide scale using the newly developed high-resolution version of the Salish Sea Model. Potential increase in the ship traffic through the Salish Sea and associated oil spill risk and the community interest in currents hind-cast and forecast information with sufficient accuracy and spatial resolution for use in water quality and ecosystem led to this development. The model performance was evaluated using tides monitoring data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), monthly monitoring temperature and salinity data from 23 Ecology stations. A robust currents …

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Governor's Salmon Strategy Update: Securing A Future For People And Salmon In Washington, Erik Neatherlin Apr 2022

Governor's Salmon Strategy Update: Securing A Future For People And Salmon In Washington, Erik Neatherlin

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Salmon are in crisis and time is running out. We must act now to restore balance and save our salmon. In 2021, Governor Inslee updated Washington State's Salmon Strategy: Securing a Future for People and Salmon in Washington. The is the first time the state's salmon strategy "Extinction is Not an Option" has been updated since it was developed in 1999. This presentation will focus on priorities, themes, and actions from the strategy update, and will outline the state's legislative, policy, and budget priorities to put salmon and people on a path to recovery. (This abstract is a placeholder and …

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Bridging The Boundary: Innovative Cross-Scale Collaborations, Laura Rivas, Erin Ryan-Penuela, Kara Cardinal Apr 2022

Bridging The Boundary: Innovative Cross-Scale Collaborations, Laura Rivas, Erin Ryan-Penuela, Kara Cardinal

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The Puget Sound is a dynamic environment with diverse ecosystems, a booming and diverse population, wide varying topographies, and distributed and diverse governments and tribal nations. With limited resources for ecosystem recovery and an ever-growing list of needs, prioritizing and allocating resources to environmental recovery and protection is challenging. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “one of the key challenges for all National Estuary Programs (NEPs) is to invigorate local support by addressing local problems, but doing so in a coordinated manner that enhances mutual benefits and makes progress on regional problems…”. As a National Estuary Program, Puget Sound is …

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Identifying Rockfish Hot Spot Areas In Puget Sound Through A Spatial Analysis Of Grey Data, Jamey Selleck Apr 2022

Identifying Rockfish Hot Spot Areas In Puget Sound Through A Spatial Analysis Of Grey Data, Jamey Selleck

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Ongoing research continues to inform the conservation efforts and decision making processes related to rockfish recovery in the Salish Sea, and there is continued need in summarizing and quantifying historical information related to rockfish habitat and their areas of occurrence. The relative scarcity of existing empirical data on rockfish in Puget Sound makes every form of available data more valuable. Studies utilizing reviews of grey literature and interviews with local experts and resource users have highlighted the value of local ecological knowledge (LEK) and its use in conservation management. We spatially analyzed rockfish data compiled from historical fishing guide books …

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Incentivizing Green Infrastructure Equitably, Aaron Clark Apr 2022

Incentivizing Green Infrastructure Equitably, Aaron Clark

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Incentive-based ecological programs have a checkered history. By providing incentives for voluntary environmental improvement, landowners and communities have the power to choose what changes they want (rather than having changes imposed on them), improvements can occur despite no regulatory requirements, and those changes tend to be enduring because landowner and community buy in leads to better stewardship. However, most incentive programs allocate resources inequitably, funneling public money to improvements in higher income, wealthy and predominantly white communities. But this need not be the case. In 2012 our partners at ECOSS asked community members from several underserved racial and cultural groups …

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Results From Seven Years Of Partnership Driven Young-Of-The-Year Rockfish Surveys In The South Salish Sea, Adam Obaza Apr 2022

Results From Seven Years Of Partnership Driven Young-Of-The-Year Rockfish Surveys In The South Salish Sea, Adam Obaza

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Knowledge of rockfish recruitment dynamics and habitat utilization by recently settled rockfishes is valuable for developing appropriate fishery management and recovery actions. Until 2015, no survey effort sought the spatial and temporal data necessary to fill these gaps in the southern Salish Sea. To address this need, NMFS collaborated with state and federal agencies, non-profit groups, and academic institutions to develop a citizen science SCUBA survey program directed at young-of-the-year (YOY) rockfishes. In this program, volunteer and professional divers perform timed roving surveys in discrete habitat types, recording data on rockfish abundance in four morphological classes, as well as qualitative …

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Qualitative Network Models Facilitate Multi-Benefit Comparison Of Management Interventions For The Puget Sound Social-Ecological System, Dr. Caitlin Magel Apr 2022

Qualitative Network Models Facilitate Multi-Benefit Comparison Of Management Interventions For The Puget Sound Social-Ecological System, Dr. Caitlin Magel

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Management of coastal systems should be guided by social, cultural, economic, and ecological objectives, but integrative decision support tools appropriate for complex coastal systems remain underutilized. We employed one such tool – qualitative network modeling (QNM) – to evaluate the multi-benefit outcomes of proposed recovery actions for Puget Sound, Washington, USA. The basis for our analysis was a conceptual model developed with regional scientists and stakeholders that describes how human stressors and ecosystem components are connected (via positive and negative links) to recovery objectives across the terrestrial-freshwater-estuarine gradient of a generalized Puget Sound watershed. Through a combination of alternative network …

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An Analysis Of Environmental Factors Influencing Spatial Clustering Of Salish Sea Clam Species, James Mcardle Apr 2022

An Analysis Of Environmental Factors Influencing Spatial Clustering Of Salish Sea Clam Species, James Mcardle

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Mapping bivalve biomass through the use of GIS can be a valuable tool for managers of commercially and recreationally-important clam species. The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has been conducting intertidal clam surveys on reservation beaches since the early 2000s with the goal of managing their bivalve fisheries sustainably. These data, however, can also be used to investigate how environmental factors may influence spatial clustering of target species. We mapped biomass data of Leukoma staminea, Saxidomus gigantea, Clinocardium nuttallii, and Tresus sp. on a culturally-valuable beach located on the reservation. Statistically significant clusters of biomass polygons were identified using a Getis-Ord …

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2021-2022 Preventing Non-Point Source Pollution: On-Site Sewage Program During The Time Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Corrina Marote Apr 2022

2021-2022 Preventing Non-Point Source Pollution: On-Site Sewage Program During The Time Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Corrina Marote

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2021-2022 Preventing Non-Point Source Pollution: On-site Sewage Program During the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic 2021-2022 Preventing Non-Point Source Pollution: On-site Sewage Program During the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic Skagit County Public Health has required permits for on-site sewage systems (OSS) since 1958 and established an operations and maintenance (O&M) program in 2000. The O&M program goal was to identify sources of non-point pollution from OSS that closed a commercial shellfish harvest area the northern Puget Sound. Efforts in this area allowed the bay to reopen. With 4 dedicated employees, the OSS program was robust until March 2020 when …

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Working Together On A Coastal Marine Strategy For British Columbia., David Angus, Taylor Mason Apr 2022

Working Together On A Coastal Marine Strategy For British Columbia., David Angus, Taylor Mason

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On the coast of British Columbia (BC), the effects of climate change, pollution, seafood production, coastal development, and transportation on our environment and related values are increasing. In addition, historical inequities in terms of access to ocean resources, the distribution of power and benefits, and exposure to harms persist and in some cases are exacerbated by business-as-usual approaches to marine management. Ensuring sustainable and equitable development of our marine economy in BC is possible with better, more complete ocean governance and strategies that reflect current and future values and pressures. As one of only a few maritime jurisdictions in North …

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Contaminant Reveal Spatial Segregation Of Chinook Salmon That Reside In Puget Sound: Implications For Salmon Health And The People And Whales That Eat Them, Sandra O'Neill Apr 2022

Contaminant Reveal Spatial Segregation Of Chinook Salmon That Reside In Puget Sound: Implications For Salmon Health And The People And Whales That Eat Them, Sandra O'Neill

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Adult salmon accumulate most of their final body mass, and also most of their burdens of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), while feeding in marine habitats. Most Puget Sound Chinook salmon migrate to the ocean to feed and grow but a large fraction resides and feeds within the Salish Sea. These “residents” accumulate higher levels of POPs from the pelagic food web than do conspecifics feeding along the coast, exposing people and whales consuming resident fish to higher contaminant concentrations. We measured POPs in fish collected throughout Puget Sound marine basins in the fall and winter of 2016 and 2017 and …

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A Moral Debt: History, Science, And Our Obligation To Southern Resident Killer Whales, Dr. Jason Colby Apr 2022

A Moral Debt: History, Science, And Our Obligation To Southern Resident Killer Whales, Dr. Jason Colby

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A Moral Debt: History, Science, and Our Obligation to Southern Resident Killer Whales Today, there is no more prominent symbol of the transnational Pacific Northwest, and particularly the Salish Sea, than orcas. Scientists, policymakers, and journalists regularly comment on the plight of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales in particular. Yet few explore the transformative role this population has played in regional (and global) environmental values, as well as their broader impact on the scientific study of whales. Southern Residents are the most influential cetacean population in human history, but they have paid a steep price for our change and …

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Assessing Sources Of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (Pbde) Flame Retardants Impacting Juvenile Chinook Salmon In The Snohomish River Watershed, Alex Gipe Apr 2022

Assessing Sources Of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (Pbde) Flame Retardants Impacting Juvenile Chinook Salmon In The Snohomish River Watershed, Alex Gipe

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A 2016 study by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) found wild juvenile Chinook salmon in the Snohomish River had tissue concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants high enough to produce sublethal effects. Juvenile Chinook salmon accumulate toxicants from streams in urban and developing environments that receive stormwater and wastewater discharges. In 2019, the Washington Department of Ecology, in partnership with WDFW, conducted a source assessment to determine sources of PBDEs in the Snohomish River watershed. Passive water samplers (semi-permeable membrane devices) were deployed throughout the Snohomish, Skykomish, and Snoqualmie Rivers during high and low flow …

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The Time For Reparations From Washington State Is Now! As Non-Human Persons, Orcas Deserve Justice, Dr. Alexandrea Safiq Apr 2022

The Time For Reparations From Washington State Is Now! As Non-Human Persons, Orcas Deserve Justice, Dr. Alexandrea Safiq

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Conservation biology: a multi-disciplinary science aimed at understanding biodiversity loss with an orientation towards facilitating the protection of species, communities, and ecosystems. Unlike other scientific disciplines, conservation biologists fall into a unique category of socio-ecological influencers (i.e., environmentalists) because the protection of biodiversity, within the context of the Anthropocene, means protecting species from the historically unsustainable exploitation of nature by humans. A shift from domination of nature to an ecosophy based on mutualism has begun. As a result, nature is becoming more frequently viewed as possessing non-human personhood. Given this paradigm shift in western culture to acknowledge what indigenous cultures …

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Juvenile Chinook Salmon Accumulate Harmful Levels Of Toxic Contaminants While Undergoing Their Seaward Migration, Andrea Carey Apr 2022

Juvenile Chinook Salmon Accumulate Harmful Levels Of Toxic Contaminants While Undergoing Their Seaward Migration, Andrea Carey

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Puget Sound Chinook salmon are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and habitat degradation and loss, overfishing, climate change and contaminant exposure are factors contributing to their decline. Juvenile Chinook salmon rear and feed for extended periods in estuary and nearshore habitats, potentially exposing them to contaminants that accumulate disproportionately there. Exposure to toxic contaminants can lead to reduced growth, a weakened immune response, reproductive impairment, and may ultimately reduce their survival. To assess the status of contaminant exposure in estuarine habitats used by seaward migrating juvenile Chinook salmon, fish were collected from the estuary habitat of …

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Strategies For Identifying And Mitigating Predation On Salmon In Washington’S “Estuaries Of Concern”, Dr. Casey Clark Apr 2022

Strategies For Identifying And Mitigating Predation On Salmon In Washington’S “Estuaries Of Concern”, Dr. Casey Clark

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Reduced salmon run sizes, fishery closures, and rebounding predator populations have made predation on salmonids by seals, sea lions, and birds a focal point for discussions of salmon conservation and management in the Salish Sea. Predation on threatened and endangered Chinook salmon has been of particular concern and was highlighted by the Southern Resident Orca Task Force as an important subject for further research. Rivers and estuaries are a good place to focus this work, due to elevated predation that can occur at biological pinch points in these systems (e.g., Bonneville Dam, Ballard Locks) and the opportunity to target management …

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Meeting At The Crossroads: Environmental Justice And Large Carnivore Conservation, Alex Mcinturff Apr 2022

Meeting At The Crossroads: Environmental Justice And Large Carnivore Conservation, Alex Mcinturff

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As global environmental changes continue to accelerate, research and practice in the field of conservation biology may be essential to help forestall precipitous declines in the earth’s ability to sustain a diversity of life. However, many conservation programs have faced scrutiny for the social injustices they create, especially within the paradigm of demarcating protected areas. Currently, a new conservation paradigm emphasizing human-wildlife coexistence is emerging, and with it, an opportunity to ensure that justice for both human and beyond-human groups is given consideration. Recovery programs for large carnivore species, like orcas, are a practice emblematic of this new conservation paradigm, …

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Roadway Runoff Exposure Disrupts The Blood-Brain Barrier In Juvenile Coho Salmon, Stephanie Blair, Clyde Barlow, Jenifer Mcintyre Apr 2022

Roadway Runoff Exposure Disrupts The Blood-Brain Barrier In Juvenile Coho Salmon, Stephanie Blair, Clyde Barlow, Jenifer Mcintyre

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Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) are highly sensitive to urban runoff exposure and are an important ecological indicator for emerging contaminants. Recurrent die-offs of adult prespawn coho salmon in urban streams are attributed to the newly discovered tire chemical 6PPD-quinone. Juvenile coho salmon lethally exposed to roadway runoff and 6PPD-quinone demonstrate a similar progression of behavioral symptoms. In previous studies, we demonstrated that juvenile coho exposed to roadway runoff show blood-brain barrier disruption concurrent with severe rises in hematocrit. This suggests that cause of death may be due to loss of neuronal function following increased permeability of cerebral vessels and plasma …

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Lessons Learned From Intensively Monitored Watersheds (Imws) Of The Pacific Northwest: Management Applications, Considerations, And Adaptive Management, Keith Dublanica, Robert Bilby Apr 2022

Lessons Learned From Intensively Monitored Watersheds (Imws) Of The Pacific Northwest: Management Applications, Considerations, And Adaptive Management, Keith Dublanica, Robert Bilby

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The Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB), the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC), and the Pacific Northwest Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP) have collaborated on an overall assessment of twelve of the sixteen intensively monitored watersheds (IMWs) in the Pacific Northwest. These areas, located in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California were specifically chosen for watershed restoration treatments following a limiting factors analysis affecting varied salmonid life histories. All are utilizing validation monitoring in order to test the specific hypothesis crafted for each, while addressing salmonid productivity following treatment implementation. Five of these IMWs are located in the Columbia River basin. …

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Trends And Status Of Harbor Seals In Washington State (1978-2019) With Management Applications, Dr. Scott Pearson Apr 2022

Trends And Status Of Harbor Seals In Washington State (1978-2019) With Management Applications, Dr. Scott Pearson

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Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi) numbers were severely reduced in Washington by a federally-financed control program in the first half of the twentieth century. Seal numbers rebounded after the cessation of bounties and the establishment of legal protections under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA). As seal and sea lion populations recover, updated stock estimates are critical for determining their status under the MMPA, assessing management options under the Act, and for modelling exercises designed to evaluate the role of pinnipeds in marine ecosystems. To estimate population size and abundance trends in Washington State, we conducted aerial surveys …

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Harbor Seal Consumption Of Steelhead Upon Marine Entry, Megan Moore Apr 2022

Harbor Seal Consumption Of Steelhead Upon Marine Entry, Megan Moore

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Predation by harbor seals may be threatening the recovery of ESA-listed steelhead. After freshwater rearing, steelhead smolts experience high mortality during their rapid migration from river mouth to the Pacific Ocean. Previous work indicates that harbor seal predation is a primary source of early marine mortality in the Salish Sea, but the level of impact exerted by harbor seals on steelhead has not been quantitatively assessed. We calculated the percentage of Nisqually River steelhead migrants consumed by harbor seals in 2016, 2017, and 2018 from estimates of (1) the proportion of harbor seal diet comprised of steelhead, (2) the number …

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Sense Of Place And Southern Resident Killer Whales In The Salish Sea Region, Dr. David Trimbach Apr 2022

Sense Of Place And Southern Resident Killer Whales In The Salish Sea Region, Dr. David Trimbach

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Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) are widely recognized as a charismatic species and symbol of the Salish Sea region, if not greater Pacific Northwest. SRKW have a long history in the region, which has evolved in tandem with the diverse human communities who have called this place home. SRKW-human relationships have been complex and subject to change, often dramatic change. This presentation seeks to partly untangle this relationship by examining sense of place and SRKW in the region. By bringing together findings from multiple complementary studies, including a recent national study on state designated species and place meanings, this presentation …

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Evaluation Tools To Assess Recovery Progress And The Adaptation Of Future Efforts., Elene Trujillo, Dr. Annelise Del Rio, Dr. Chanda Littles, Kirsten Feifel, Jay Krienitz, Dr. Letitia (Tish) Conway-Cranos Apr 2022

Evaluation Tools To Assess Recovery Progress And The Adaptation Of Future Efforts., Elene Trujillo, Dr. Annelise Del Rio, Dr. Chanda Littles, Kirsten Feifel, Jay Krienitz, Dr. Letitia (Tish) Conway-Cranos

Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference

Ecosystem recovery programs have a fundamental need for scientific evaluation. Evaluation outcomes are used to understand recovery progress, predict changes with changing climate conditions and dynamic socioeconomic systems, and provides the needed information for a sustainable and adaptable recovery effort. In the Puget Sound, ecosystem recovery is progressing, albeit more slowly than hoped, despite substantial investments made. Many monitored ecosystem indicators are not meeting recovery targets and salmon populations in the region show few signs of recovery. There is continued need for scientific evidence to improve clarity around critical decisions and ensure investments are effective and targeted to accomplish the …

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Central Puget Sound Phytoplankton And Nutrient Dynamics, Kimberle Stark Apr 2022

Central Puget Sound Phytoplankton And Nutrient Dynamics, Kimberle Stark

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Puget Sound is a large, geographically complex, and highly productive estuarine system. The Central Basin is the largest of the four deep basins comprising Puget Sound. Primary producers (phytoplankton) serve key ecosystem functions as their abundances and taxonomic composition can impact higher trophic levels. Several factors can influence phytoplankton dynamics, including nutrient availability, water column mixing, climate, and grazing by zooplankton. In this system, coastal upwelling contributes the largest amount of nutrients. Localized watershed and anthropogenic sources also contribute nutrients to the system. King County (Seattle, WA) implements a long-term monitoring program with physical, chemical, and biological components designed to …

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A Real-Time Data Assimilative Forecasting System For Southern Resident Killer Whales In The Salish Sea, Dr. Ruth Joy Apr 2022

A Real-Time Data Assimilative Forecasting System For Southern Resident Killer Whales In The Salish Sea, Dr. Ruth Joy

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Marine ship traffic is a growing source of anthropogenic stress for at-risk cetaceans through physical and acoustic disturbances. Real-time whale locations and short-term forecasts of a few hours can mitigate these risks by providing lead time for commercial vessels to adjust their path and speed. Towards this end, we develop a real-time forecasting system that assimilates observations into a stochastic movement model to provide forecasts of future whale locations and trajectories. A state space model is used to combine the movement model with location observations. Real-time data ingestion and forecasting is implemented using a sequential data assimilation cycle based on …

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Use Of An Open Knowledge Network For The Salish Sea, Paul Williams, Charlene Andrade, Philip Murphy, Steve Hinton, Sono Hashisaki Apr 2022

Use Of An Open Knowledge Network For The Salish Sea, Paul Williams, Charlene Andrade, Philip Murphy, Steve Hinton, Sono Hashisaki

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We face more and greater challenges with a new sense of urgency. Science organizations have long recognized the need for data management and curation to support decision making. However, the information needed today to make resource decisions goes beyond data and models. It also includes people, their knowledge and values, needs of programs and projects, funding, geographic information, and more. This panel discusses the use of an Open Knowledge Network (OKN) for the Salish Sea, an open technology platform for finding, sharing, and accessing information and tools for decision making. Panelists will describe one such OKN, the Social Ecological Open …

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From Site To Sea: Protecting Habitat Through An Integrated Response To The Invasive European Green Crab Across The Salish Sea, Dr. P. Sean Mcdonald, Bobbie Buzzell, Dr. Emily Grason, Chief Gordon Planes, Allen Pleus, Allie Simpson, Crysta Stubbs, Renny Talbot Apr 2022

From Site To Sea: Protecting Habitat Through An Integrated Response To The Invasive European Green Crab Across The Salish Sea, Dr. P. Sean Mcdonald, Bobbie Buzzell, Dr. Emily Grason, Chief Gordon Planes, Allen Pleus, Allie Simpson, Crysta Stubbs, Renny Talbot

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Biological invasions are known to impact important nearshore habitats. Though European green crab, Carcinus maenas, has been periodically abundant in coastal embayments of Washington State and Vancouver island since the late 1990’s, range expansion into the Salish Sea in recent years has the potential for more destructive impacts and dynamics. In the Salish Sea, green crab pose a threat to essential eelgrass beds, tidal marshes, and mudflats. Management of green crab occurs at a regional scale, but control actions to mitigate impacts and protect habitats take place at the local (site) level. It can be a challenge to integrate place-based …

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