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What will curious eyes find on the beaches of Puget Sound? This movie is a quick overview of the many creatures waiting to be discovered, from kelp to octopus, from tiny eggs to giant bull kelp, from dollars to jellies. Narration tells stories about how these creatures behave.
With miles of coastline, countless rivers, streams, lakes and wetlands, water is the link that connects our communities. Two free courses offer a chance for small groups to become familiar with issues related to our waters.
Stretching from Oregon all the way to Alaska, the waters that border the Pacific Northwest house an amazing array of life. This DVD takes you on a journey through 4 seasons of marine life in the Pacific Northwest introducing you do many of its underwater inhabitants and discovering their lives.
What do these have in common: Monitoring creosote at the bottom of Eagle Harbor in Puget Sound, surveying an Oregon Coast dredged material disposal site, characterizing a seafood outfall from a salmon processor in Ketchikan, Alaska?
Salmon passage has been in the media quite a bit lately. One of the programs that already exists to address this problem is the Washington State Family Forest Fish Passage Program.
Giant pile worms or sea nymphs rise from their burrow when the moon and tides are right. They swim vigorously with the males following the females, eggs or sperm pouring out of each
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Seafloor Living
Why don’t we have more places where people can hang out in the submarine world without actually getting wet? As I was speaking with a friend the other day about the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, WA, she said she had been to the museum but was very disappointed because it wasn’t undersea at all!
Yuck, yuck, and yuck!
Stormwater continues to be the largest source of pollution in Puget Sound, and Laura James continues to provide such graphic imagery of this that the mainstream media is getting more engaged in the story. Of course it helps that Laura is quite articulate, even poetic, on the topic. Today we’ve added links to new coverage
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If you haven’t received the recent SEA-Media eNewsletter, Sign up for our free newsletter! We’ll keep you posted about the latest media and SEA-Media’s latest projects. For example, there are terrific new ways to get to know the world below the water’s surface. SEA-Media’s web site brings these opportunities up to the surface where you can find
Free Photos! Or a Needle in a Haystack?
SEA-Media.org aims at being a beacon in the frenetic hubbub of the internet — one-stop-browsing for anyone who was interested in media related to Pacific Northwest waters. As I was preparing a presentation for a science conference next week (Oct 26, 2011), I wanted some photos that illustrated things that we typically don’t see in our
Watching Our Water Ways
- J pod returns after an extended absence May 16, 2013J pod, one of the three groups of killer whales that frequent Puget Sound, returned to the San Juan Islands yesterday after an unusually long absence. J pod typically passes through the area throughout the winter months. It is K and L pods that spend more time in the open ocean along the West Coast. […]
Olympic Peninsula Environmental News
- Oil Spill Response Plan Covering 1,600 Vessels Approved for Puget Sound and Grays Harbor – KBKW May 8, 2013The Washington Department of Ecology has given its final approval of the Washington State Maritime Cooperative’s (WSMC) umbrella oil spill readiness plan that covers more than 1,600 commercial vessels that transit Puget Sound and Grays Harbor. WSMC’s oil spill readiness – or contingency – plan helps ensure that large commercial vessels can mount a rapid, […] […]
Science Diving from EPA Region 10 (Pacific Northwest)
- EPA Recognizes High School Students for Environmental Innovation May 17, 2013Jacquel Caron Rivers and Arne Joi Saguni Nipales win the Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability Award, and will showcase their winning projects at the National Sustainable Design Expo in 2014. Today, EPA recognized the winners of this year’s EPA Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona. Named in […]
Port Townsend Marine Science Center
- Ocean acidification in Washington State: an exploration of its chemical, biological, and societal impacts May 17, 2013Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Saturday, June 15 4PM Part of the Seattle Science Festival Ocean acidification is caused by very well understood chemical processes, though its progression in coastal estuaries is complicated by a variety of human activities. The US Pacific Northwest is a hot spot for rapid progression of ocean acidificat […]
Salish Sea News & Weather
- 5/17 First Salmon, BC pipes, Noctiluca, stormwater permits, sewage PR, Johnny Depp fossil May 17, 2013Japanese nettle jellyfish (Ward Perrin, PNG)New blog: “British Columbia has survived its 40th provincial election. If you are going to run for public office in Washington state, you will have to register as a candidate by the end of today. Have you every considered being a candidate? Some people run for public office. Why?...” Deciding To Run For Public Offi […]