Media Items
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound Web Site
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound (Beta version) is online as of 16 May 2012 at http://eopugetsound.org This web site offers access to the most relevant and up-to-date scientific information, primarily for researchers and policymakers working to protect and restore Puget Sound. It is, however, also available to everyone else. This online effort is designed as a reference source
Contemplative Filmmaking
Does every movie need a plot and a punchline? I’d argue that it depends on the purpose of the movie. As both an approach and a practice, Contemplative Filmmaking is a way of seeing. It’s an expressive form with a kinship to poetry.
OCTOPUS BABIES HATCHING IN PUGET SOUND
Laurynn Evans observed an octopus over a 10 month period and filmed its eggs and hatchlings. People seem to think that puppies are cute, but how can you argue with the cuteness factor of tiny, rounded, jet-propelled babies from inner space sporting 8 legs and 3 hearts?
The Printer’s Catch: An Artist’s Guide to Pacific Coast Edible Marine Animals
Forget your parents’ admonitions to not play with your food. This book will guide you in the fine art of playing with your food in a way that will leave you with some fun art-making experience, a good dinner, and some insight into what these creatures do for a living. Where else can you view
CAP ON TOXIC UNDERWATER CREOSOTE LAKE
EPA divers inspect “cap” put over creosote contaminated sediment on the bottom of Eagle Harbor.
Wreck Diving in Lake Washington
Ever wonder what was under the water as you drive across Lake Washington? This radio story discusses some of the man-made items that lie hidden from land-lubber eyes.
The story originally aired on FM station KUOW, 02 December 2011.
NISQUALLY DELTA RESTORATION PROJECT
The Nisqually Delta Restoration Project web site offers access to a wide variety of information, including news, photos, video, and science reports about this project. The videos are definitely worth checking out.
INTO THE DEEP WITH ELEPHANT SEALS
Thousands of northern elephant seals — some weighing up to 4,500 pounds — make an annual migration to breed each winter at Año Nuevo State Reserve, on the San Mateo County coast. Marine biologists are using high-tech tools to explore the secrets of these amazing creatures.
The Highest Tide
“I learned early on that if you tell people what you see at low tide they’ll think you’re exaggerating or lying when you’re actually just explaining strange and wonderful things…” (The Highest Tide, Lynch)
VIRTUALLY LIVING UNDERWATER: UNDERWATER OBSERVATORY
Imagine watching live events unfold underwater any time of day or night from the comfort of your own home. Fish fishing, hydrothermal vents venting, volcanoes erupting, landslides sliding, or simply the sideways gait of a deep water crab seeking some morsel for dinner.
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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
- A Quote worth noting on Refuge Management April 27, 2026As the controversy over the possible transfer of management and ownership of the Dungeness Wildlife Refuge and Protection Island to the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe continues, I was sent this quote which sums up the issue of approving this transfer. At the moment, the Refuge decision making process is theoretically one for the protection of its […]
Salish Sea News & Weather
- 4/27 Monk seal, Sunrise pipeline, wildfire cost, BC interior fires, fish-trucking, Skagit battery energy storage, slime mold, flood mitigation, meme war, marathon milestone, democracy watch. April 27, 2026Dear Readers: Salish Sea News and Weather will take a break and return on May 11. Mahalo. Hawaiian Monk SealHawaiian Monk Seal Neomonachus schauinslandi The Hawaiian monk seal is a vulnerable species of earless seal in the family Phocidae that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian monk seal is one of two extant […]