Learn more about nationwide EarthDay 208 events.  Some COSEE-OLC members will be walking Seattle’s beaches on Puget Sound and Lake Washington picking up trash. Contact Rick for details if you’d like to join us.  UPDATE: we collected 2.3 pounds of trash, but the beaches were already very clean.  Kudos to asll who joined in the hunt for trash!

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The Puget Sound Partnership recently released a 5 minute film, “Shifting Baselines”, as part of their public education campaign regarding the current status of the Puget Sound. COSEE collaborative work on cooking spices in Puget Sound made the final cut!  Watch the video 

The Puget Sound Partnership recently released a 5 minute film, “Shifting Baselines”, as [...]

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There has been so much intersting oceanography in the news lately; hundreds of off-axis earthquakes in the Cascadia Basin, flat-faced fish, and now new evidence of man’s relentless alteration of the oceans.  Turns out that relentlessly harvested fish leave behind populations dominated by juveniles; these young fish mature faster and are more likely to show genetic variability that [...]

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