2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference
Conference Schedule
Thursday, March 31, 2005
7:30am Coffee Service & Poster Viewing
6th Floor East Lobby & Poster Hall
8:00–9:30am Concurrent Sessions 7
Forage fish (sand lance, surf smelt, herring) are a critical link in the marine food web. Many organisms, including salmon species, some of which are listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act in the United States, depend on forage fish as an important component of their diet during various life stages. Forage fish populations are threatened by the loss of habitat and other factors. This panel will address the science and management issues surrounding forage fish and their habitat.
Kevin Long, North Olympic
Salmon Coalition
Filling the
Gaps: Documenting Forage Fish Spawning Beaches and Providing Community
Education
Tina Whitman, Friends of
the San Juans
Stephanie Buffum Field, Jim Slocomb
From Science to
Stewardship: The application of forage fish habitat assessment data to the
protection of shoreline resources in San Juan County, Washington
Tim Abbe, Jose
Carrasquero-Verde, Steven Morrison, Thurston Regional Planning Council
Bulkheading in Thurston County: Impacts on Forage
Fish
Ginny Broadhurst, NWSC, and Lisa Kaufman
Creosote removal in the Northwest Straits: an important piece of nearshore marine habitat restoration
Paul Hershberger, USGS,
Jacob Gregg, Jon Richard, Garth Traxler
Larval Herring Acquire Resistance after Challenge
with Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus
Greg Bargmann, Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Jake Schweigert, Department
of Fish and Oceans
Puget Sound and
Georgia Basin Forage Fish Management Plans
8:00am Landscape Fragmentation and Urban Sprawl in Pierce
County, WA
8:15am Spatial Relationships between Beneficial and
Detrimental Nearshore Habitat Parameters in WRIA 9 and the City of Seattle
8:30am Assessing the Impacts of Urbanization on Shellfish
Growing Areas in Puget Sound, Washington
8:45am Tools for evaluating areas of influence of
pollutants within streams and marine waters of South Puget Sound
9:00am Water Resources and Urban Planning in the
Transition Economies
9:15am The Water Balance Model for British Columbia: A
Web-Accessible Tool for “Green” Subdivision Design
We are literally awash in indicators at every scale. In many cases, the indicators show declining ecosystem trends and are full of deflating bad news. There are indeed success stories that mark improvement in discrete areas, but models of best practice and learning networks are underdeveloped. There is great opportunity to breathe life into indicators and place them in their rightful context. This panel will address issues such as: Working across borders and scales; target audiences; collecting data at all scales; storytelling and resonance; turning static information into change; and, diffusion models.
Risa Smith, Environment
Canada
Canadian Biodiversity Index - First Results of Proof
of Concept Testing
Nicholas Brown, SeaDoc
Society
Species of Concern within the Puget Sound Georgia
Basin Marine Ecosystem: changes from 2002 to 2004
Linda Gilkeson, B.C.
Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection
Improving the Effectiveness of Indicator Reporting:
The BC Coast and Marine Environment Project
Chantel Stevens,
Sustainable Seattle
Measuring what matters - sustainability indicators
and the participatory process
Heidi A. Siegelbaum,
Siegelbaum & Associates
Data Needs a Date: Transforming the Complexity of
Science to Ecosystem Change in the Puget Sound Georgia Basin
Ed Miles, Virginia
and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Mairne & Public Affairs and Senior
Fellow, Joint Institute for the Study of Atmospherie and Oceans, University of
Washington
Integrated assessments and their use: multiple
external and internal stressors and climate change
Terrie Klinger,
Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs, University of Washington and Chair of
the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council
Metrics for
assessing marine environmental change
Tom Leschine, Professor and
Director of the School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington
Metrics for assessing societal change
Dan Huppert, Associate
Professor, School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington
Implicit trade-offs of demographic and economic
trends
Dave Fluharty, Wakefield
Professor of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, School of Marine Affairs, University
of Washington
Institutional capacity to take integrated action
Patrick Christie, Assistant
Professor, School of Marine Affairs, Program on the Environment and Jackson
School of International Studies, University of Washington
Role of iconic species in motivating change
Marc Hershman, Professor,
School of Marine Affairs, School of Law, University of Washington
Puget Sound efforts in the context of PNW and
national developments: institutional complexities
8:00am Wind Patterns in the Georgia Basin
8:15am A Climatology of Windstorms in the Western Pacific
Northwest, 1948-2004
8:30am A collaborative ambient research and monitoring
program in the southern Strait of Georgia
8:45am Principle Component Analysis for Uniqueness in
Puget Sound Hydrographic Stations (1989-2003) - Let the Data Speak!
9:00am Seasonal water mass analysis for the Straits of
Juan de Fuca and Georgia
9:15am Interannual variation in water quality variables
in Puget Sound as revealed by time-series analysis
8:00am Seahurst Park: Restoring Nearshore Habitat and
Reconnecting Natural Sediment Supply Processes
8:15am Using 3D visualization to portray Elwha River
dam-removal
8:30am Using Historical Data to Estimate Changes in
Floating Kelp (Nereocystis leutkana and Macrocystis integrifolia) in Puget
Sound, Washington
8:45am Developing Landscape Benchmarks to Monitor Urban
Growth in Puget Sound
9:00am Next Steps in Nearshore Habitat Restoration for
Puget Sound - the Practitioners Speak Out
9:15am Links, chains and witness trees - using historical
research to guide watershed restoration
9:30–10:30am POSTER SESSION
Poster Hall
10:30am–Noon Concurrent Sessions 8
10:30am Effects of turbulent flow on the movement of larval
sand dollars
10:45am Olympia oysters: Where have they gone, and can they
return?
11:00am Restoration Aquaculture of the Pinto Abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana)
11:15am Spatial and Temporal Changes in Pinto Abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) Abundance at Ten Index
Sites in the San Juan Archipelago
11:30am New Approaches to Shellfish Protection in Puget
Sound
11:45am Patterns of benthic production in Puget Sound:
where and why do bivalves grow best?
10:30am Evolution of Seattle Public Utilities’ Natural
Drainage System Projects
10:45am Infiltration through Natural Drainage Systems in
Seattle, Washington
11:00am Case by case - the design and implementation of
sustainable communities
11:15am Integrating LID with Development Practices
11:30am Urban Watershed Management Planning: Creating
future successes.
10:30am Opportunities and Limits of Regulations
10:45am Trans-border Comparison of Three Sustainable Cities
Programs: Vancouver, Seattle and Oslo
11:00am The Coastal Zone Canada Association: Ten Years of
Moving the ICOM Markers
11:15am The Fraser Basin Council: Advancing Sustainability
in the Georgia Basin Through Collaborative Leadership
11:30am The Georgia Basin Action Plan: Building on Success
and Meeting Ongoing Challenges
10:30am Persistent organic pollutants in whole bodies of
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) in Puget
Sound, Washington: evidence of environmental segregation of stocks based on
contaminant levels and patterns
10:45am Elevated levels of persistent organic pollutants in
free ranging populations of Puget Sound populations of Pacific salmon: the
importance of residency in Puget Sound.
11:00am Harbor seals as indicators of trends in
contaminants in Puget Sound: comparison of results from two sites
11:15am Adverse health effects of persistent organic
pollutants in Puget Sound harbour seals
11:30am Dietary sources of persistent organic pollutants in
southern resident killer whales
10:30am Volunteer fish and invertebrate surveys: what makes
recreational SCUBA divers want to participate?
10:45am Sound Stewards: The Art of Nurturing Our Super-Volunteers
11:00am Island Community Maps & Conservation in the
Salish Sea Region
11:15am Getting to Healthy Shellfish Beds Through Community
Connections
11:30am Marine Shoreline Health as an Integrating Concept
for Policy, Education and Public Involvement in Puget Sound
11:45am An NGO Initiative for developing community
engagement in the development of a marine protected area in the Southern Strait
of Georgia
10:30am Spatial Patterns and Trends of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) at Multiple Scales in Puget Sound:
Key Findings from the First Five Years of Long-Term Monitoring
10:45am Eelgrass (Zostera marina)
transplant survival and density trajectories over eight years at a North Puget
Sound restoration site
11:00am Improving the success of eelgrass (Zostera marina) restoration in the Pacific
Northwest by using the three P’s: Planning, Planting, and Performance
11:15am Proactive Approaches Explored Promoting Functional
Riparian Fish Habitat Creation and Restoration in Surrey, BC.
11:30am Beach Rehabilitation and Monitoring at Marine Park,
Bellingham: Recreating an Urban Beach in Bay-Wide Habitat Restoration Context
11:45am Tseycum First Nation and the Restoration of the
Patricia Bay Watershed
Noon–1:00pm Lunch
Ballroom 6B
1:00–2:30pm Concurrent Sessions 9
1:00pm Environmental Public Health in Washington State:
How Complete are the Data?
1:15pm Declining Chemical Contamination in Puget Sound?
Results of the 1999-2003 National Mussel Watch Program
1:30pm Current-use pesticides in coho salmon habitat in
the Fraser River System, British Columbia
1:45pm Poisoning of birds of prey by anticholinesterase
insecticides in agricultural areas of southwestern British Columbia
2:00pm Evaluation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs),
Mercury, and DDT in Rockfish, English sole, Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon from
Puget Sound, Washington
ADDED PAPER
2:15pm Glyphosate alters olfaction in juvenile coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch
1:00pm Science, Policy, and Partners: A case study of the
success of salmon recovery planning in the Snohomish River basin
1:15pm Traversing the boundaries between science and
policy: finding Pathways for place-based community planning
1:30pm Community Involvement in Eelgrass Protection
1:45pm Integration of Joint City/Tribal Beach Seining
Results into Shoreline Management & Salmon Recovery Efforts
2:00pm The San Juan County Marine Stewardship Area:
Developing a Voluntary Marine Management Regime that Recognizes the Social,
Economic and Ecological Values of County Waters
2:15pm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy for the Greater
Vancouver Region
1:00pm Invasion Pathway Analysis and Genetic Screening
Tool Development
1:15pm Life In The Stress Zone: The Role Of Fungal
Symbiosis In The Distribution And Survival Of Plants In Puget Sound
1:30pm Comparative Reproductive Events Of The Invasive
Varnish Clam, nuttallia obscurata, And The
Fisheries Littleneck Clam, venerupis philippinarum
1:45am Impacts of invasive drills on Olympia oysters in
Puget Sound: patterns and mechanisms
2:00pm An Estuarine Invader - How Oregon’s Spartina
Response Plan is Reaching Beyond Borders
2:15pm A partnership approach to Spartina removal in the
Fraser River Delta
1:00pm Assessment of Bottomfish Density and Diversity
within Potential Marine Reserves in Skagit County, Washington
1:15pm Rockfish and Marine Protected Areas in the Puget
Sound
1:30pm Strategies for Use and Protection of the Gulf
Islands Marine Environment
2:00pm A Marine Atlas for the Proposed National Marine
Conservation Area in the Southern Strait of Georgia
2:15pm Retrospective analysis of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) abundance in small embayments
within the San Juan Archipelago, Washington
2:30pm Say Hello to Big Eddy: A global model for
international cooperation for ecosystem-based oceans management and MPA
development
1:00pm Successful Relocation of a Seattle Purple Martin
Breeding Colony
1:15pm Shorebird feeding ecology: implications for conservation
and management
1:30pm Movement and Spatial Requirements of Great Blue
Heron Colonies Over Time
1:45pm Shorebird habitat use during fall and spring
migration in the Greater Skagit-Stillaguamish Delta
2:00pm Recovery of the Western Purple Martin bordering
the “Salish Sea” - the Georgia Basin of British Columbia and Puget Sound,
Washington
1:00pm Aquatic habitat Guidelines Project
1:15pm Estuarine habitat restoration in the context of
rising sea-level: planning on a landscape scale.
1:30pm Linking nearshore processes with intertidal
diversity in Puget Sound
1:45pm Educating shoreline landowners: examples from
King, Whatcom, Kitsap, and Jefferson counties
2:00pm An interactive Decision Support System for marine
shoreline characterization
2:30–3:00pm Break
East Lobby
3:00–4:30pm Concurrent Sessions 10
3:00pm Polychlorinated Biphenyl concentrations in Adult
Chinook salmon returning to coastal and Puget Sound hatcheries.
3:15pm The Effect of Heavy Metal Pollution in Aquatic
Environments on Metallothionein Production in Mytilus edulis
3:30pm Neurobehavioral Effects of the Carbamate
Insecticide, Carbaryl, on Salmonids
3:45pm An Assessment of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Effects
on Development of Wild Mink (Mustela vison)
from Ontario and British Columbia, Canada
4:00pm Xenoestrogen exposure and altered reproductive
timing in Puget Sound English sole
3:00pm Cumulative Effects of Agriculture on Water Quality
in the Transboundary Sumas River Watershed
3:15pm A Watershed-based Approach for Developing a
Multi-Parameter TMDL In Sinclair- Dyes Inlet, Washington
3:30pm Drinking water quality and well owner perceptions
of quality in a rural watershed in British Columbia, Canada.
3:45pm Current In-use Pesticides in Streams Located in
Agricultural, Urban and Relatively Undisturbed Areas of the Lower Fraser Valley
4:00pm Nutrients in an Eelgrass Dominated Bay: Seasonal
and Diurnal Fluctuations in Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen and Phosphorus
Matt Bernard, U.S. Coast
Guard
The Regional Contingency Planning Process
Naki Stevens and Jeff
Pavey, People for Puget Sound
A Brief History of Oil Spill Policy in Washington:
Complacency or Vigilance?
Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, WA
Department of Ecology
Washington State Initiatives for Oil Spill
Preparedness
David A. Sawicki, British
Petroleum, Director – Crisis Management and Emergency Response - Western US
Private Sector Spill Response Capabilities—Puget
Sound – Washington, Oregon and British Columbia
Debra A. Simecek-Beatty, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and
Carl E. Brown, Environment
Canada
A Primer for Oil Spill Remote Sensing
3:00pm Conservation leasing in Washington
State-partnerships for improving and protecting state-owned submerged lands
3:15pm Beyond Boundaries - Turning Conservation Targets
into Conserved Areas
3:30pm Improving existing marine protected areas in Puget
Sound
3:45pm Gulf Islands National Park Reserve: A Conservation
Assessment Review
4:00pm Salish Sea Selected as a Priority Conservation
Area in the Baja California to Bering Sea Initiative
3:00pm Menzies Project: Funding Ongoing Baseline Data
Collection With Sustainable Tourism Revenue
3:15pm An Assessment of Alaska Cruise Ship Wastewater
Discharges
3:30pm The Evolution of Adaptive Management Practices for
Vessel-based Wildlife Viewing in the Boundary Waters of British Columbia and
Washington State. From Voluntary Guidelines to Regulations?
3:45pm Wildlife Viewing Recreation: Economic Stimulant
and Habitat Protection Tool
4:00pm The evolution of commercial whale watching -
action plan for 2005
3:00pm Restoring Marine Habitats and Mending Social
Communities
3:15pm Habitat Based Science as a Management Tool for
Washington’s State-owned Aquatic Lands
3:30pm Using the Internet for Promoting Environmental
Stewardship at WDNR
3:45pm Quick’s Bottom: A case study in wetland
restoration.
4:00pm Puget Sound Georgia Basin Shoreline Management
Planning
4:15pm Application of Spatially-Distributed Watershed
Models for Resource Management
Closing Session / Student Awards
4:30–5:30pm
Room: 6A
This closing plenary session features a conference wrap up from the co-chairs, and a recognition ceremony for those students who presented exceptional technical papers and posters.