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?
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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.
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?
Watershed Report: the video versions
Narrated entirely by local high school students, the Watershed Report is an award winning series of short video reports on positive sustainability trends in the 13 school districts and 27 cities of the greater Lake Washington Watershed.
Make a Sound Impact! Student Video Contest
See the winners of Facing the Future’s Make a Sound Impact student video contest in 2011. You can also see all of the videos submitted to the contest.
SEA-Inside: Pacific Northwest
SEA-Inside: Pacific Northwest — a TV series that takes you for a journey to meet our neighbors under the surface of Pacific Northwest waters.
The Reason You Can’t See to the Bottom . . . .
This short movie will shatter the perception that — because you can’t see to the bottom — there must not be much life in the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest
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!
Our Home
This video about the impact of ocean acidification upon our shellfish and the Puget Sound was created, directed and co-filmed by a group of dedicated Suquamish High School youth who want to bring about community awareness of this iss
Recent Media Articles
Ian’s Ride
In Ian’s Ride, Karen Polinsky tells an inspiring story of Ian Mackay learning ways to approach life after he had been paralyzed from the neck down. One of the things I especially liked about the story was how it focused on the process of finding solutions rather than dramatizing a negative view of the situation.
Our Oceans
A five-episode series, each one about a different ocean. The underwater video is stunning, and it does a good job of pointing out ecosystem interconnections.
The Accidental Ecosystem
Cities do, indeed, have their own ecosystems. These have developed over centuries of city growth, suburb growth, and other human impacts on the lands. This book added a new dimension to my understanding of how we are impacting nature.
Earth For All
Earth for All was published in 2022 as a report to The Club of Rome. As I read it, I realized that it was part of a “new wave” of literature about addressing our current global problems — a wave that was based on systems thinking.
Homewaters
I highly recommend Homewaters — for the way it introduces the components of the Puget Sound ecosystem, but especially for how it weaves the various parts together.