The Water Center Seminar
Fall 2008 Schedule
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- Sep 30 Puget Sound "Above the Fold"—A Reporter's Perspective Robert McClure Environmental Reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Oct 7 On the Water Every Week—Protecting Puget Sound Every Day Sue Joerger Puget Soundkeeper and Executive Director, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
- Oct 14 Hood Canal—Lessons Learned and Charting a Corrective Course of Action Duane Fagergren Hood Canal Regional Liaison, Puget Sound Partnership
- Oct 21 What Can You Do with an Art History Degree? Debora (Debby) A. Hyde Special Project Coordinator, Habitat Protection and Restoration, Office of the Executive, Pierce County
- Oct 28 Geoduck Clam Aquaculture on the Intertidal Habitats of Southern Puget Sound: Assessment of Ecological Impacts and Mitigation of Regional-scale Cultural Conflict Glenn R. VanBlaricom Assistant Leader, Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Associate Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Nov 4 The Virtual Puget Sound—A Process to Evaluate Alternative Futures for Puget Sound? Jeffrey E. Richey Professor, School of Oceanography and Director, Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model (PRISM)
- Nov 11 No Seminar—Verterans Day Holiday
- Nov 18 Impacts of Metals on Aquatic Ecosystems and Human Health Frances Solomon Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia, Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, Vancouver, BC
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Nov 25
Coldwater Fishes and Thermal Refuges in Hot Water
Christian Torgersen
Research Landscape Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Cascadia Field Station
Assistant Professor, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington
- Dec 2 Green Lake Alum Treatment—Dose for a Decade Rob Zisette Water Quality and Aquatic Science Principal, Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.