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Jan Kocian
Jan Kocian adorns his incredible underwater photos with drawings that allow the collages to tell more complete stories than the photos would by themselves.
“A Visitor On Their Planet”: Looking Below the Surface with Laura James
“I’m swimming through an amazing school of different types of small fish. There’s hundreds of them, and they’re swimming along with me.”
CRABS AND BARNACLES: AN INTRODUCTION TO MARINE ARTHROPODS
A unique DVD with 3 separate sets of age appropriate movies for high school, middle school and primary school audiences.
Field Guide to Seaweeds of Alaska
This book is the first and only field guide to more than 100 common seaweeds, seagrasses, and marine lichens of Alaska.
Voices of the Strait
Funded by the Puget Sound Partnership, Voices of the Strait documents life on the Strait of Juan de Fuca over the last 80 years.
Expeditions: Call of the Killer Whale
Orcas, also called killer whales, number fewer than 100,000 worldwide, and learning more about them is a global endeavor for Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team of explorers, who travel to both the northern and southern hemispheres as they seek out killer whales in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The World Below
Thursday Jan. 13, 2011 at 10:00 p.m. PBS station KBTC (from Tacoma) aired “The World Below,” a half-hour special about local videographer John F. Williams featuring some of his work.
Ocean Seasons
In fun, fanciful form, children learn about plants and animals that are joined through the mix of seasons, food webs, and habitats beneath the waves. I recently pulled my signed copy of this book out of my bookshelf because I was giving a talk in Port Ludlow, WA—this author’s neighborhood. This beautifully illustrated book is
Life is Her Oyster
in this KPLU radio segment Liam Moriarty walks the tide flats of Case Inlet (south Puget Sound) with Betsy Peabody, executive director of the Puget Sound Restoration Fund.
Big Bang Big Boom
Semi-imaginary creatures evolving on a rapidly accelerated time scale illustrate connections between the land and the sea. BLU uses a relatively new art form “stop-motion graffiti animation” to create a stunning depiction of “an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.” This is a
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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 […]