September 2016
South Sound Science Symposium
The symposium brings together scientists working in the South Puget Sound ecosystem, including the watersheds that surround the marine waters. The Symposium is open to a wide variety of topics that address the following questions: What is the emerging science to help inform recovery, restoration or protection efforts? What are the trends, what is the status and what does this tell us about the ecosystem condition? Potential topics for symposium sessions and posters: 2015 Drought The ocean’s warm water blob…
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Attend a poster presentation by the Washington Sea Grant Crab Team at the South Sound Science Symposium. Symposium registration is $20 for students and $40 for regular registrants. More information on the SSSS Website. Abstract: Because of a recent range expansion, the European green crab (Carcinus maenas) presents an invasion risk to Washington’s inland shorelines. The global invader established in coastal embayments like Willapa Bay in 1998, but numbers subsequently dwindled owing to poor local reproductive success. In 2012, Canadian wildlife officials discovered…
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