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Apr 25, 2012

Relic gardens: camas in the San Juan Islands

A botanist believes Coast Salish tribes once favored small islands in the San Juan archipelago for growing camas, an important food staple. Her studies may also show the vulnerability of these relic gardens to climate change as sea levels rise.
By Eric Wagner for the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
May 03, 2012

Modern Puget Sound timeline

The Puget Sound region has a long history that has shaped the culture and environment we experience today. View a timeline describing key events in the Puget Sound region dating from Washington statehood to the present.
By Sound Science Contributors; NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
May 03, 2012

Climate change impacts on water management in the Puget Sound region

Climate change is projected to result, on average, in earlier snowmelt and reduced summer flows, patterns that are not well represented in the historical observations used for planning and reliability analyses by water utilities.
By Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington; section authors include Julie A. Vano, Nathalie Voisin, Lan Cuo, Alan F. Hamlet, Marketa McGuire Elsner, Richard N. Palmer, Austin Polebitski, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
May 08, 2012

Levees and Salmon Habitat

This two-map series illustrates the impact levee vegetation maintenance requirements can have on salmon habitat.
May 11, 2012

Water Resource Inventory Areas in Puget Sound

The Washington State Department of Ecology and other state natural resources agencies have divided the Washington into 62 "Water Resource Inventory Areas" or "WRIAs" to delineate the state's major watersheds.
By WRIA descriptions excerpted from a report by the Washington State Conservation Commission
May 16, 2012

WRIA vs Watershed Subbasin

Water Resource Inventory Areas are Washington State management regions that do not strictly follow watershed boundaries.
May 19, 2012

Seagliders in Puget Sound

They are sometimes called Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), or submersible drones. They glide like airships through the deeper channels of Puget Sound, and have become an important tool for a wide array of open ocean applications, including detection of marine mammals, military reconnaissance and the monitoring of environmental disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Puget Sound is the birthplace and key testing area of the Seaglider.
By Eric Wagner for the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound