Squaxin Island Tribe's Natural Resources

Video of the presentations at the 2009 South Sound Science Symposium is availale at:  http://www.davekrupa.com/Videos/SSSciSymp/SSSSIntro.aspx .

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During the liveblog of the South Sound Science Symposium, I wrote about solely what was being said on stage. But, there were a dozen or so poster presenters talking about their research as well. Here are a couple of those presenters.
Rana Brown is taking a look at how geoduck aquaculture might be impacting local ecosystems. [...]

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Here are an additional audio clips from the South Sound Science Symposium held a week ago at the Squaxin Island Tribe’s Little Creek event center.
This is moderator Trina Wellman’s summary of the symposium. You can also download Trina’s talk here.

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This week’s heavy rain that began falling Monday May 4th through today (Thursday May 7th) made for some high flowing South Puget Sound creeks.  After Monday night, 3 of the 4 weir smolt traps that Squaxin operates have blown out.
Luckily the traps are designed to blow out in high flow events.  Each trap has “blow [...]

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Mindy Roberts at the state Department of Ecology, presents on:
Human Influences on the Deschutes River, Capitol Lake & Budd Inlet. Human activities have unintentionally unraveled a variety of ecological processes manifested in high water temperatures, bacteria concentrations, and fine sediment levels, as well as low dissolved oxygen concentrations.
Notes from her talk:
Budd Inlet, Capitol Lake, and [...]

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Joe Buchanan of Cascadia Research and WA Department of Fish & Wildlife on:
Potential influence of species interactions among native and/or exotic species on shorebird abundance suggests that establishing baseline conditions for monitoring will require a greater understanding of community dynamics in estuarine ecosystems.
Notes from Joe’s talk:
Visited Kennedy Creek from 1980 through 2008, with few visits [...]

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Chris Ellings, restoration biologist with the Nisqually Tribe, presenting on:
A study of Chinook distribution, feeding behavior, growth, and estuary residence to provide a baseline comparison for how the population may respond to large-scale ecosystem restoration.
Notes from Chris’s presentation:
Predicting a large response for restoring the Nisqually River estuary. So, what are the linkages between estuary restoration [...]

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Jeanette Dorner from the Nisqually Tribe emailed in a question from Jennifer Ruesink’s presentation:
Did Jennifer from UW have any conclusions about the impact of aquaculture on South Sound health?  Or is she still investigating the question?
John Konvsky, who followed Jennifer’s presnation a lot closer than I did, was able to reply:
…her research goes the other [...]

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Sandie O’Neill from NOAAA is giving a lunch keynote address on:
Regional Effort to Select Environmental Indicators for the Puget Sound. Where we’ve been, where we’re going, and South Sound involvement.
Notes from Sandie’s talk:
One of the uses of indicators is to keep policy makers up to speed on progress.
Must be science based, but also resonate with [...]

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Here is some audio taken from Charlene Krise’s presentation at the South Sound Science Symposium this morning.
Here is the original post on her presentation on traditional ecological knowledge.

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