Media Items
FISHING NETS ABANDONED IN PUGET SOUND: FINDING SOLUTIONS
When fishing nets are abandoned, they keep capturing fish, marine mammals and seabirds. Decaying carcasses attract more scavangers who get caught in the nets. Small fish hide in the shadow of the nets, attracting larger predators who also get caught.
Digital Fishers: Science, Game, or Both?
Would you like to peer out the window of a submarine as it explores the ocean floor? Did you ever dream of being the first person to see some bizarre underwater phenomenon? Are you a fisher who likes to watch fish in their natural habitat? Or a gamer who likes unusual challenges?
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference, 2011
Not your father’s science conference. In addition to the usual, this one featured a gallery art show and a film festival.
Marine Ecoregions of North America
A beautifully illustrated overview of the rich storehouses of biodiversity underpin our quality of life, our economies and much of our cultural identity. The photographs in this book are inspiring!
THE DUCKS & US SONGBOOK MOVIE
This musical in a book is a refreshingly new treatment of diverse mindsets coming to terms with their relationships with the environment.
John Hemmen Art
One thing I especially like about the work of John Hemmen is exemplified in the accompanying image: showing not just fish but relationships.
Shifting Baselines in the Sound
How are our expectations for a healthy Puget Sound are colored by our recent experience with a less than bountiful Sound?
SHIFTING BASELINES: COMMON SENSE FOR THE OCEANS
The Shifting Baselines web site is a treasure trove of videos, serious and funny, professional and student made. They all share a common theme: shifting baselines.
The Power of the Sea — Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and our Quest to Predict Disasters
When the sea turns its enormous power against us, our best defense is to get out of its way — but to do that, we must first be able to predict when and where it will strike.
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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.
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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 […]