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Most coastal cities are built at the mouths of rivers and in estuarine systems where soft sediment was the dominant marine habitat type historically. Though we’ve added all sorts of … Continue readingAll that lives in a handful of mud
Here’s a neat tool that could be of use to urban planners and restoration ecologists – CASU, the “Complexity for Artificial Substrates” program. CASU is open source software developed by Lynette … Continue readingCASU
As coastal cities become increasingly urbanized, the surrounding waters are littered with a plethora of artificial structures. An “artificial structure” can be anything from seawalls and breakwaters to an abandoned garden statue, like … Continue readingEngineering for the greater ecological good
Green seas in the city If you’re a barnacle, clam, mussel, or any other filter feeder in a temperate coastal city, you’re likely to be highly attuned to the changing … Continue readingFuel
I’m en route to the Friday Harbor Labs for a much anticipated research blitz – a 72 hour research intensive with fellow graduate students in the IGERT Program on Ocean Change (IPOC). Over the course … Continue readingResearch Blitz – Science for Adaptation Planning
Coastal cities are not just home to high densities of humans. Octopus may also come to dwell in urban landscapes in large numbers. This is what we’re finding in an … Continue readingUrban Dweller: The Giant Pacific Octopus
A quick tribute to a common urban marine organism that’s beauty is often overlooked: the Moon Jelly, Aurelia spp. Here’s Aurelia aurelia from an urban seascape in Seattle: Jellyfish seem to … Continue readingAurelia
Last fall, I posted photos from an urchin barren at Elliott Bay Marina. It’s taken me forever to compile video from the same dive, but here it is in all its glory … Continue readingUrchin barren video
In his recent book, Blue Urbanism, Timothy Beatley at the University of Virginia School of Architecture pushes us to reconsider our relationship with the marine environment as we develop and re-envision coastal … Continue readingBlueUrbanism
There’s been much talk in the local dive community recently of an urchin take over in Puget Sound’s urban waterways. Divers at some of Seattle’s busiest dive sites have noticed a sudden … Continue readingUrchin take-over?