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?
Tag Archives for Pacific Northwest
Family Forest Fish Passage Program
Salmon passage has been in the media quite a bit lately. One of the programs that already exists to address this problem is the Washington State Family Forest Fish Passage Program.
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 Beachcomber’s Guide to Seashore Life in the Pacific Northwest
Mommy, is that red snot?” is just one of the many shoreline related questions that can be answered by this handy book.
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.
Pacific Marine Imaging
Oceans contain habitats as different from one another as rainforests are from deserts. From coastlines to the deepest ocean trenches there lives a vast array of marine life – some rare, some bizarre, some astonishingly beautiful.
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.
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.