Monthly Archives: May 2009

South South Science Symposium updates here

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Throughout the day, there will be regular updates from the 2009 South Sound Science Symposium being held at the Squaxin Island Tribe’s Little Creek Events Center.

Here is some background information on the event:

The purposes of the Symposium are to build from last year’s successful event, connect the region’s scientists on ecosystem issues and questions, and explore the threats and indicators unique to South Puget Sound. We will explore a variety of topics and relate them back to some central questions:

  • What do these observations mean?
  • Are there changes in the region’s food web?
  • What are the consequences?

You can find regular updates at this link.

Here is the agenda and here are abstracts of the various presentations and posters.

Everyday Olympia: Water Quality, Capitol Lake and the Deschutes Estuary

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Jeff Dickison has a new post over at Everyday Olympia on water quality in Capitol Lake:

…a recent letter from the state Department of Ecology to the Department of General Administration (which owns the property around the lake and therefore manages it) sheds a lot of light on the water quality debate.

In short, the letter spells out the water quality problems in Capitol Lake are being caused by the lake’s very existence. Because the artificial lake is by its very design shallow, warm and sluggish it becomes a haven for algae growth that leads to its many water quality problems.

You can read the entire post here.