Insects on the Peninsula
Butterflies, Moths and Caterpillars
We are fortunate to live on the Olympic Peninsula for so many reasons. One that doesn’t get enough attention is that...
Climate Change and Snake River Salmon: Undoing the System
Why do changing water temperatures in the middle of the tropical Pacific Ocean make it so important to take seriously the long-debated idea of...
Seabed Mining Part II: Who Owns the Oceans?
As detailed in Part I of this two-part series, the seafloor is teeming with minerals so expensive to recover that mining them has only...
Seabed Mining: What Lies Beneath
Ask any child, and in fact most adults, what is lurking below the waters of the Salish Sea and you might hear about whales,...
The Good News: Puget Sound Herring
Spring on Puget Sound is about gardens bursting with tulips and daffodils, white sails set against glistening blue seas, and massive, shimmering schools of...
Citizen Science: So What?
In the early summer, seabirds such as common murres and pigeon guillemots number about 50 birds per square kilometer in the southeast corner of...
Science Reporting: Hype or Hope?
Recently, a sea-grizzled, Pulitzer-award winning journalist asked me if I thought the print media did a good job of science reporting. I thought about...
From Lupine to Chinooks, the Elwha Pulses
By Jessica Plumb
Feature photo of Glines Canyon Dam reservoir by Jessica Plumb
In September 2011, I stood on a river overlook with children from my...
Seeing Seaweed
Local photographer and naturalist Wendy Feltham has found the beauty in kelp.
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Brazilian music in our “little village”
We are republishing this article from last year as we begin the 2024 Centrum Choro workshop.
Some years back a Brazilian musical friend stated "we...
So Long, Pygmy Kayaks
More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...
George Vancouver and the Puget Sound Map
On a foggy spring morning in May, 1792, 231 years ago this week, a sea-weary group of British sailors made their way out of...
Beach Eggs – Part 1
Cover Photo - Monterey Dorid (Doris montereyensis)
In this four-part series we’ll look at some little known wonders of the Salish Sea by examining the...
A ticklish subject
I’ve been doing some research on Humor recently. Weighty tomes with nearly incomprehensible charts and graphs and jargon tackle the subject from every conceivable...
