3rd

South SoundScience Symposium (S4)

South Puget Sound

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

S4 Financial Sponsors

Other S4 Supporters

S4 Live Blog

• www.squaxin-nr.org

S4 PosterAbstracts

• www.psp.wa.gov/southsoundscience.php

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• AMPHIBIAN REPRODUCTION IN STORMWATER DETENTION PONDS

• Salmon Recovery in the Puyallup-White and Chambers-Clover Creek Watersheds