Media Items
Underwater Dust Mop
Giant California sea cucumber in action, eating off the floor, the seafloor. See its wild tentacles in action in this video.
Return of the Plankton
Who eats whom?
Whose dads are guarding eggs?
What happens when a crab hides in an octopus den?
Geoduck Larvae (and more)
What do geoduck do from their first moments of life until their old age? How do they reproduce? Then where do they go?
Dungeness Crab Molting
Have you ever watched a crab crawling out of its shell? See this Dungeness crab molt in just a matter of minutes.
Scientists track giant whales by their earthshaking calls
Fin whales produce some of the loudest noises in the animal kingdom. So loud that marine geophysicists have found fin whale calls recorded by seismometers they use to detect earthquakes. Since these whales haven’t been studied much, scientists are using the whale’s calls to learn more about their behavior.
Beach Walk — A Naturalist’s View
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.
Our Watershed — Two Self-directed Water Discussion Courses
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.
Kelp and Critters
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.
EPA Dive Videos
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?
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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.
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
- 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 […]