2. 3rd
South Sound
Science Symposium (S4)

3. South Puget Sound

4. S4 Planning Committee
• Andy Haub, City of Olympia
• Christina Donehower, People for Puget Sound
• Dayv Lowry, Department of Fish & Wildlife
• Doug Myers, People for Puget Sound
• Duane Fagergren, Puget Sound Partnership
• Eric Beach, Green Diamond Resource Co.
• Jean MacGregor, The Evergreen State College
• John Konovsky, Squaxin Island Tribe
• Lawrence Sullivan, Department of Health
• Mindy Roberts, Department of Ecology
• Sayre Hodgson, Nisqually Indian Tribe
• Scott Steltzner, Squaxin Island Tribe
• Tom Kantz, Pierce County
• Wendy Gerstel, Qwg Applied Geology

5. S4 Financial Sponsors

6. Other S4 Supporters

8. S4 Live Blog
• www.squaxin-nr.org

9. S4 Poster
Abstracts
• www.psp.wa.gov/southsoundscience.php

10. Poster Titles
• Status and Trends in Fecal Pollution in
South Puget Sound Shellfish Growing
Areas: 2009 Update
• The Washington BEACH Program –
BACTERIA MONITORING IN PUGET
SOUND
• Sea-level rise and the Puget Sound
nearshore: The squeeze of forage fish
spawning habitat

11. • South Puget Sound Nutrient Loading:
Magnitudes and Sources
• South Puget Sound Sediment Quality In
Comparison to Other Areas of Puget
Sound, and Partnership Opportunities
for 2011 Status and Trends Sediment
Monitoring in South Puget Sound and
Budd Inlet
• Determining geoduck larval distribution
in Quartermaster Harbor using adaptive
trapping and a novel molecular tool

12. • An Environmental Indicator for Puget
Sound Tributary Low Flow Trends
• Intra-annual Trends in Fecal Coliform
Bacteria Populations on Inter-tidal
Sediment in Oakland Bay 2007-10
• Puget Sound Seabird Survey: Science
by Citizens

13. • Amphibian response to alternative
riparian buffer treatments in the first
post-harvest year: The Type N
Experimental Buffer Treatment Study
• Effects of Sea Level Rise on Beach
Spawning Habitat
• Environmental, Economic and Social
Benefits of Washington State Shellfish
Production

14. • Prioritizing aquatic lands statewide for
conservation and protection
• Potential impacts of ocean acidification
on oyster recruitment in Puget Sound
• A LANDSCAPE BASED STRATEGY
FOR PRIORITIZING CATCHMENTS
ALONG THE NEARSHORE OF BUDD
INLET

15. • Maintaining Lentic-Breeding Amphibians in
Urbanizing Pacific Northwest Ecosystems:
Do Current Regulations Protect Pond-
Breeding Amphibians?
• Biodiversity of Benthic Mobile Fauna in
Geoduck (Panopea generosa) Aquaculture
Beds in Southern Puget Sound,
Washington
• Geology and groundwater of a coastal
restoration project – balancing objectives
and site conditions in 3 dimensions

16. • 2008-2009 Streamflow Records for Four
Small Puget Sound Streams in
Thurston County
• Expanding Research to Keep Pace with
Extensive Restoration in the Nisqually
Delta
• Proposed Nisqually Reach Aquatic
Reserve: A Collaborative Approach to
Habitat Conservation

17. • Transport of heat, salt, oxygen, and
freshwater within the southernmost
extent of South Sound: The year 2010
in review
• Mycofiltration at Oyster Bay Farm: An
effort to reduce fecal coliform in Burns
Cove, Totten Inlet
• Determination of Perfluorinated
Carboxylic Acids from Surface Water
Samples from Quartermaster Harbor,
Puget Sound

18. • Using Metallothionein in Mussels as a
Bioindicator of Metal Stress in South
Puget Sound, Washington
• INCARCERATED MEN AS PARTNERS
TO CONSERVATIONISTS IN REARING
ENDANGERED FROGS FOR
TRANSLOCATION

19. • AMPHIBIAN REPRODUCTION IN
STORMWATER DETENTION PONDS
• Salmon Recovery in the Puyallup-White
and Chambers-Clover Creek
Watersheds