The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound recently collaborated with the Burke Museum at the University of Washington to georeference the museum’s herpetology collection.
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More about our site launch. Here is a transcript of an interview with EoPS Executive Director Joel Baker that aired on KUOW on October 24, 2012.
KUOW Weekday interview with Joel Baker, Katy Sewall. October 24, 2012.
11/01/2012
The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound is pleased to announce the formation of its editorial board. The nine-member board first convened on October 24th at a reception and workshop on the University of Washington Seattle campus, and includes prominent authorities from agencies, academic institutions and other organizations working in Puget Sound.
11/01/2012
For those of you who couldn't make it to the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound kickoff last week, you can view a video of the panel discussion, or read the transcript. You can also check out photos of the event on our Facebook page.
09/17/2012
We are hosting a website kickoff event! Join us for a panel discussion and reception to celebrate the launch of the Encyclopedia, a new effort to synthesize and share scientific information about Puget Sound recovery.
08/27/2012
The Puget Sound Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Puget Sound Partnership are supporting work by the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington to examine the effects of climate change in the Puget Sound region.
08/20/2012
If you ask a scientist what they consider to be the most significant threat to the health of the Puget Sound ecosystem, more often than not they will point to climate change. The impacts will touch almost every facet of Puget Sound ecology.
07/27/2012
Late last night, I found myself on Protection Island dodging rhinoceros auklets. The island is home to the largest nesting colony of the birds in the state, where about 35,000 of them burrow into the hillsides. Dozens of them were swooping in, thumping onto the ground all around me (listen to mp3).
07/03/2012
The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound builds upon the efforts of hundreds of scientists working throughout the Salish Sea region. You can be a part of this process by giving us your feedback. We invite you to take a short online survey.
06/26/2012
The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound is powered by Drupal 7, an open-source web content management system built on PHP and MySQL. Learn more about Drupal.
06/21/2012
Earlier this month, the Puget Sound Institute and Puget Sound Partnership brought together conservation practitioners from around the region to share information about the use of Open Standards, CAP and the practice of adaptive management in the Puget Sound region.
05/20/2012
The Puget Sound watershed has gone through extraordinary change in just a few decades. As conservation groups wrestle with ways to protect the region’s environment, a key priority in many cases is also to “restore” Puget Sound to its former health.
05/19/2012
The effort will bring together thousands of map layers on NOAA’s Environmental Response Management Application® (ERMA) to improve access to geospatial data and research within the region.
05/16/2012
A beta version of the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound is now online! Find hundreds of descriptive articles, maps and other media related to Puget Sound ecosystem science. Give us your feedback. Tell us what you would like to see on these pages in the future, and find out how you or your organization can become part of the EoPS knowledge network.
05/09/2012
Creating a checklist of the species of the Puget Sound watershed sounded simple enough. It was one of the first orders of business for the new Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. If you are going to try to create a comprehensive collection of information about a natural system, it makes sense to first find out what occurs in that system.
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