The 2016 South Sound Science Symposium http://southsoundscience.org/ was held at the Little Creek Event Center on September 20^th. There were over 450 attendees making 2016 the largest event yet for South Sound.

Topics included:

• Nisqually Community Forest – process, analysis of ownership, how it can be used as a salmon recovery tool
• Active tectonics in South Puget Sound
• Landslides, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanic Eruptions: They all happen in Washington. Why? What does it cost? What can we do?
• Sea level rise, Budd Inlet
• Shoreline armoring data
• An updated groundwater model for regional planning – Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed, Pierce County
• Modeling trophic interactions in South Sound
• Beach spawning, forage fish monitoring
• LOTT’s Reclaimed Water Study: What we have learned so far about residual chemicals in our local waters
• New science documenting toxic impacts on salmon and other aquatic species
• Exploring drivers of fecal coliform pollution trends in South Puget Sound
• Nisqually Community Forest VELMA modeling

In addition to the speakers there were 23 poster presentations.

Poster abstracts can be found here: http://southsoundscience.org/agenda/posters/

Copies of the presentations can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7QIg0n4iR3cbllTVkhpVHBXMTQ

Speaker abstracts here: http://southsoundscience.org/agenda/speaker-abstracts/

Registration is now open for the 6th South Sound Science Symposium to be held September 20th at the Little Creek Casino Event Center.

Registration information, a call for posters and general information can be found here at the Symposium website.