2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference
Conference Schedule
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
7:30am Coffee Service / Poster Viewing
6th Floor East Lobby & Poster Hall
8:30–10:00am Concurrent Sessions 3
8:30am Juvenile Salmon Baseline Studies in the Nisqually
Estuary; 2002-2004 Results
8:45am Seasonal Response of an Aquatic Macroinvertebrate
Community to Salmon Spawning
9:00am Above the dam: salmon colonization in the Cedar
River, Washington
9:15am High straying rates of hatchery coho in upper Hood
Canal tributaries
9:30am Spatial, temporal, and length distributions of
marked and unmarked juvenile Chinook salmon in nearshore surface waters of
Puget Sound
9:45am Observations of coded wire tag juvenile hatchery
Chinook in the Duwamish River and Elliott Bay
8:30am Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame
retardants and human health
8:45am PBDEs and their hydroxylated (OH-BDE) and
methoxylated (MeO-BDE) metabolites in fish and marine mammals
9:00am A mult-species approach to evaluate the presence
of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in the Puget Sound food web.
9:15am Emerging concerns: flame retardants in the marine
mammals of Puget Sound and Strait of Georgia
9:30am Washington State PBDE Interim Chemical Action Plan
8:30am The Island County "Certified Shore
Stewards" Program
8:45am Tales of a Talking Oyster: How shoreline owners
have rolled up their sleeves to restore private shellfish beds plagued with
bacterial contamination in lower Hood Canal.
9:00am Galiano Up-Close, What Do You Value?
9:15am Using Coastal Monitoring Programs to facilitate
Environmental Education and Civic Involvement
9:30am The Effects of Field Science Research Integrated
into K-12 Curriculum
9:45am Shoreline Stewardship Support for Local Government
Parts 1, 2 and 3:
Swinomish Earth Enhancement Celebrations 2003-2005: The Planning Process
Archaeological Evidence for Sustainability of Coast Salish Sea
Urchin Harvesting
Panel Description – How do you incorporate climate variation and change into transboundary management and policy in the PS/ GB region?
While mitigation to climate change will be important, it can only slow the rate of greenhouse gases accumulation, but will not alter impacts and damage on the most sensitive portions of ecosystems and human communities. Social adaptation through landscape, aquatic and ecosystem based conservation, restoration, policy and management can be used to help ameliorate the affects of climate change. Adaptation science and research will help identify anticipatory approaches for sustainable use and development of ecosystems and their component species and habitats. Recognizing the need to improve our knowledge of climate change impacts and adaptation, a panel discussion has been developed to discuss a balance of existing and future research, planning, policy and management on the issues of climate change in Puget Sound and Georgia Basin.
Presenters:
Diana Allen, Simon Fraser University
Paul Whitfield, Environment Canada
Kim Hyatt, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
other speakers TBD
Over 150 years, the legacy of human alterations of Puget Sound’s critical nearshore processes has led to ecosystem decline. This panel lays out a developing approach of interdisciplinary analysis, planning, research and demonstration projects to address nearshore process restoration at the ecosystem scale.
Curtis Tanner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Olympia, WA
The Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration
Project: An Approach to Restoring Nearshore Ecosystems at a Sound-wide Scale
Charles
Simenstad, University of Washington Fisheries Science, Seattle, WA
Conceptualizing Restoration of Nearshore
Ecosystem Processes
Doug Myers, Puget Sound Action Team, Olympia, WA
Puget Sound Nearshore Conditions of the Past,
Present and Future
Fred Goetz, US
Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle, WA
Formulating a Restoration Plan for the Puget
Sound Nearshore
Tom Mumford,
Washington Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, WA
Challenges of Applying Adaptive Management to
Restoration of Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystems: Misconception and
Irreversibility
Guy Gelfenbaum, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
Coastal Habitats In Puget Sound: A Research Plan
in support of Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration
10:00–10:30am Break and Poster Viewing
Poster Hall and East Lobby10:30am–Noon Concurrent Sessions 4
10:30am Distribution and Abundance of Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) Spawn Deposition for Cherry Point,
Washington stock, 1973-2004.
10:45am Characterization of Demersal Marine Fish
Communities in Puget Sound
11:00am Interpreting nearshore fish community dynamics from
Strait of Georgia juvenile herring surveys
11:15am Rockfish populations in San Juan County
11:30am Puget Sound Bull Trout the Unrecognized Anadromous
Salmonid of the Pacific Northwest
10:30am Emission Reductions from the U-Pass Program in the
Georgia Basin
10:45am Semi-Volatile Organic Pollutants in Snow from
National Parks of the Pacific Northwest
11:00am Atomospheric Transport of Persistent Organic
Pollutants to Cheeka Peak Observatory from 2002-2004
11:15am Canada-U.S. Convergence in Environmental
Regulation: The case of marine vessel emissions.
11:30am Developing a Geomatics Protocol for Urban Air
Pollution Sampling Based on a Range of Input Data
11:45am Development of the GVRD’s New Air Quality
Management Plan
10:30am Elwha River Restoration-Monitoring the Response of
Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems at the Watershed Scale
10:45am Predicting salmonid response to the removal of the
Elwha River dams
11:00am Elwha and Glines Canyon dam removals: nearshore
restoration and salmon recovery of the central Strait of Juan de Fuca
10:30am Improved Environmental Data and Project Management
Reporting
10:45am Using the Capital Regional District’s Harbours
Atlas for planning, managing and restoring harbour areas in Victoria, British
Columbia
11:00am A Puget Sound Coastal Landform Classification GIS
database
11:15am Integrated Modeling for Water Resource Management
11:30am A Conceptual Model Tool for Coastal Management
10:30am Simulation of Puget Sound hydrography and
circulation, Spring - Summer 2004
10:45am In Situ and Remote Monitoring of Water Quality in
Puget Sound: the ORCA Time-Series at Pt. Wells
11:00am The Puget Sound Modeling System: Methods for
nowcasting and forecasting Puget Sound hydrodynamics.
11:15am An Aquatic Biogeochemical Cycling Model Simulation
of Puget Sound, WA
11:30am Distribution and cycling of suspended particles
inferred from transmissivity in the Strait of Georgia, Haro Strait and Juan de
Fuca Strait
10:30am Characterizing natural vs. human-related change in Puget Sound deltaic habitats
10:45am The impact of climate variability on the beaches of Puget Sound
11:00am Feeder Bluff and Accretion Shoreform Mapping in Island County for Nearshore Habitat Restoration and Conservation
11:15am Nearshore Impacts Resulting from Dam Removal on the Elwha River
11:30am The Influence of Eelgrass On Currents And Waves in the Nearshore Region
11:30am Buried and submerged forests: keys to the history and impacts of postglacial volcanism and earthquakes on the landscape of the Puget Lowland-A review of geologic literature and recent discoveries
Noon–1:00pm LUNCH
Ballroom 6B1:00–2:30pm Concurrent Sessions 5
1:00pm The value of herring spawning events to spring
conditioning of scoters in the Puget Sound Georgia Basin
1:15pm Distribution and Characteristics of Nocturnal
Resting Areas of Surf Scoter (Melanitta
perspicillata), White-Winged Scoter (M. fusca),
and other Seabird Species in Puget Sound
1:30pm Marine Bird Abundance Changes In N. W. Washington
Inshore Waters
1:45pm Status and Trend of the Marbled Murrelet in Waters
of the Puget Sound
2:00pm New insights into the breeding areas, migration
routes, staging, molting, and local movements associated with those Surf and
White-winged Scoters wintering in the inner marine waters of Washington Sta
2:15pm Understanding seabird individual movement patterns
to assess vulnerability to bycatch in gillnet fisheries
The Georgia Basin-Puget Sound International Airshed Strategy was developed by a coordinating committee, under the US-Canada Border Air Quality Strategy, a cooperative effort to investigate barriers to reducing air pollution in transboundry air basins in North America, and builds upon previous agreements under the 1991 US-Canada Air Quality Agreement. This workshop will begin with presentations on the development of the International Airshed Strategy and the scientific characterization of the shared airshed. These presentations will be followed by an open discussion and question and answer session with workshop participants.
Nancy Helm, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10
Martin Mullan, Environment Canada, Pacific & Yukon Region
Peter Schwarzhoff, Environment Canada, Pacific & Yukon Region
1:00pm Development of molecular diagnostic tools to
assess the introduction, establishment and ecology of invasive species in Puget
Sound
1:15pm Applied Recovery Research on Sand-verbena Moth: A
Puget Sound - Georgia Basin Endemic Species
1:30pm Defending Our Shores: Ballast Water Treatment
Technologies
1:45pm Effective Volunteer-Based monitoring for European
Green Crab in Puget Sound.
2:00pm Feeding rate, prey preference, and prey size
preference of two invasive predatory marine gastropods in Washington State
2:15pm Composition of Zooplankton in Ballast Water of
Ships Entering Puget Sound
1:00pm Circulation Characteristics of Puget Sound Related
to Understanding Hood Canal
1:15pm Hypoxia in Hood Canal: status and contributing
factors
1:30pm Estimated Inputs of Nitrogen to Hood Canal,
Washington
1:45pm GASP! The Response of Marine Fishes to Water with
Low Dissolved Oxygen in Southern Hood Canal, Washington
2:00pm Relationships between benthic infaunal community
structure and dissolved oxygen levels in bottom waters of Hood Canal
2:15pm Effects of low dissolved oxygen on harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) diet in Hood Canal
1:00pm Changes in growth and recruitment of the Puget
Sound rockfish (Sebastes emphaeus) and
implications for its role in the reef community in northern Puget Sound
1:15pm Assessing the Potential for a Fish Index of Biotic
Integrity in the Greater Lake Washington Watershed
1:30pm Sixgill shark (Hexanchus
griseus) conservation ecology project update
1:45pm Otolith Chemistry Reflects Life-History and Environment
of Quillback Rockfish
2:00pm Habitat Characterization and Fish Associations in
San Juan Channel
2:15pm Diet and prey size spectrum of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), a top predator in rocky reefs
of the San Juan Archipelago
The 120-acre High Point housing project incorporates an extensive natural drainage system throughout the 34 blocks of right-of-way. The panel, comprised of planners, designers, modelers, and policy experts, will discuss the aspects involved in creating this pioneering low-impact drainage system.
Panel Facilitator: Peg Staeheli, SvR Design Company
Panel:
Kathy Gwilym, SvR Design Company
Miranda Maupin, Seattle Public Utilities
Tracy Tackett, Seattle Public Utilities
Robin Kirschbaum, Herrera Environmental Consultants
2:30–3:30pm POSTER SESSION
Poster Hall3:30–5:00pm Concurrent Sessions 6
3:30pm Wrangel Island (Russia) Snow Geese wintering on
the Fraser and Skagit River deltas: population dynamics and interaction with
Scirpus marshes.
3:45pm Bird use of hedgerows in southwestern British
Columbia: effects of hedgerow composition, landscape composition and
biogeography across scales
4:00pm Spatial and temporal use of estuary and upland
habitats by wintering waterfowl on the Fraser River delta and north Puget
Sound.
4:15pm Waterfowl distribution at multiple scales in the
Georgia Basin Puget Sound.
4:30pm Relationships Between Marine Bird and Waterfowl
Assemblage Composition and Gradients of Human Influence in Nearshore Puget
Sound
3:30pm Toxic Substances Management Strategy and Action
Plan for the Georgia Basin
3:45pm An Overview of Recent Organotin Studies in the
Georgia Basin
4:00pm Fish and Chips-Genomic Applications to New
Toxicological Challenges
4:15pm Effect of PCBs and PBDEs on thyroid and vitamin A
levels in bald eagles
4:30pm Phthalates - the Next “Phosphate”?
4:45pm Distribution patterns of PAHs at Mai Po Marshes
Nature Reserve, Hong Kong
The BC/WA Marine Science Panel was appointed in 1993 by the Governor of the State of Washington and the Premier of British Columbia to address the status and future of the marine waters and resources of the shared marine waters. The MSP issued a report in 1994 that identified loss of functional habitat, particularly nearshore habitat, as being the greatest threat to the health and integrity of the ecosystem. Did the report effect substantive change? Ten years later the MSP members come together to consider this question, to re-evaluate the state of the shared waters, to second-guess their original evaluation, and to consider the direction that regional marine conservation efforts might take in future.
Andrea Copping, University of Washington
Richard Beamish, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Retired Independent Oceanographer
Chris Garrett, University of Victoria
Bruce McCain, NOAA Fisheries
Tom Pedersen, University of Victoria
Rusty Sweeting, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Tom Mumford, Washington Department of Natural Resources
David Secord, University of Washington
3:30pm Targeted Oxygen Addition to Hood Canal: A
Potential Management Strategy to Ameliorate the Impacts of Hypoxia
3:45pm Hood Canal Watershed Pledge
4:00pm Historical changes to Hood Canal riparian forest
landscapes
4:15pm Developing Early Corrective Actions to Address
Hypoxia in Hood Canal
4:30pm Chum Salmon Carcass Removal in Hood Canal Tribal
Commercial Fishery
4:45pm HCDOP Citizens Monitoring Program: integrating a
volunteer monitoring effort with the needs of a partnership-based research
program
3:30pm Interactions Between Vegetation Patterns, Social
Preferences, and Stream Biotic Conditions: An integrated approach to watershed
planning
3:45pm Tools for Managing the Fraser River Estuary: The
FREMP Habitat Inventory and Classification Systems and Coordinated Project
Review Process
4:00pm The art of applying environmental science at a
small watershed scale: A case study, Tseycum Creek, British Columbia.
4:15pm Washington State Department of Natural Resources:
Land Manager to Aquatic Steward
3:30pm A framework for conservation and restoration management
of nearshore ecosystems in Puget Sound
3:45pm Developing a Geomorphic Typology to Guide Regional
Shoreline Restoration Planning on Puget Sound
4:00pm A Science-Based Approach to Prioritizing and
Conserving Estuary Habitats in British Columbia
4:15pm Incorporating Landscape Principles into Land Use
Plans
4:30pm Estuarine habitat characterization and
distribution: potential evidence for landscape-scale dike impacts
5:00–6:30pm DINNER BREAK (on your own)
Welcome comments from:
Mr. Jeffrey Parker, Consul General of Canada
7:30 pm Public Forum - Panel Discussion
An interactive, moderated discussion of the Deployment of Science in the Transboundary Puget Sound Georgia Basin Region with elected officials and representatives of the scientific community. Open to the general public.
Moderator: Brad Ack, Chair, Puget Sound Action Team
Panel Members:
Mike Harcourt, former Mayor of Vancouver and former Premier of British Columbia
Ron Sims, King County Executive
Jay Inslee, Washington State Congressman
Tracy Collier, Acting Director of the Environmental Conservation Division, NOAA Fisheries
other panelist to be determined
Themes for the panel discussion: