Media Items
State of the Salish Sea
The Salish Sea Institute has released a State of the Salish Sea report which synthesizes information on past, current, and emerging stressors within the Salish Sea estuarine ecosystem as well as a spectrum of ideas for science-driven management to sustain the Salish Sea ecosystem.
Bird of the Week
Each of these gorgeous videos highlights photos of a particular bird species and plays audio of their songs and sounds. Some videos even show us an inside look into the bird’s world by being a live-action video of the bird interacting with its environment.
Planet Ocean
PLANET OCEAN: Why We All Need A Healthy Ocean will take you and your kids and grandkids on a deep dive, with author Patricia Newman and photographer Annie Crawley, to visit the Coral Triangle near Indonesia, the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest, and the Arctic Ocean at the top of the world.
Let the Rodent Do the Work
This isn’t just a review, it’s a review of a review. I recently listened to a Science Talk podcast from Scientific American. The podcast was titled A Breakdown of Beavers and it was a conversation between Science Talk host Steve Mirsky and Ben Goldfarb who wrote the book: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and
Our Underwater Backyard
This photo-rich article offers an experiential view of some of the life in Edmonds Underwater Park as seen through the eyes of a 12 year old SCUBA diver. The article also round out the experience with some of the important context surrounding it.
A Look at Intertidal Life: Through Her Eyes
Go on a “biodiversity treasure hunt” of False Bay with Drew Harvell, PhD, Professor of Ecology. See three habitats: the mudflats, the rocky intertidal zone, and eelgrass meadows.
Explore the Salish Sea
This beautiful book inspires kids to become “nature detectives” of a wide variety of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and tiny invertebrates barely visible to the naked eye.
Birds: Large and Small
The Winter 2019 issue of Salish Magazine tells stories about some of our local birds: some year-round residents and some seasonal ones; some large and some tiny; some land-based and some seabirds.
How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle At A Time
How to Give Up Plastic offers practical ways to reduce plastic where we live: the bathroom, the bedroom, the kitchen, on the go, at the office, in the community.
We Are Puget Sound: Discovering & Recovering the Salish Sea
“We Are Puget Sound” is a celebration of the ecosystem that is the Salish Sea, and even more it is a celebration of us: the community of people who choose to live here.
Also published by SEA-Media:
A free online magazine that takes inquisitive readers outdoors with visually rich storytelling about features people can see firsthand in our public forests and beaches.
Our Blogs
Long Overdue Update
SEA-Media is publishing Salish Magazine, a quarterly, advertisement free, on-line publication that reveals the inter-connectedness of our natural world through visual rich stories about outdoor features in our Salish Sea region. We now (Nov. 2019) have 5 issues online, and a 6th coming in December 2019. You can see it at: SalishMagazine.org This has monopolized
Wrapping Up 2017
In last December’s blog, I talked briefly about expanding SEA-Media’s horizons to include significant ecosystem connections with our waters — even when it meant paying attention to the (shudder) terrestrial parts of our environment 🙂
Olympic Peninsula Environmental News
- Wind Energy Growing April 20, 2024More good news on the wind energy front. The naysayers from PR firms working for global big oil always said that we’d never get enough energy out of the wind to make it valuable. Latest stats show that we’re getting over 10% of energy from the wind in the U.S. and new installed capacity nearly […]
Salish Sea News & Weather
- 4/25 Wood sorrel, Snoqualmie chinook, Haida agreement, farm drought, salmon teeth, first humpback, coal plats, TM oil shippers April 25, 2024Wood sorrel [David D. Taylor] Common Yellow Wood Sorrel Oxalis stricta Common yellow wood sorrel is a member of the Oxalidaceae, the Wood Sorrel family. Species in this family are small trees to small herbs. Other plants in the family include purple shamrocks (Oxalis triangularis) a common houseplant, and violet wood sorrel (Oxalis violacea). The family […]