Joyce: Citizens and Seabirds

Jerry Joyce, of Moon Joyce Resources, coauthored a recent paper in Peer J, an up-and-coming open access biological and medical sciences journal. The crowd-available article, “Using citizen-science data to identify local hotspots of seabird occurrence,” was also...

Sharpe: Down the Drain

Think before flushing, writes Elizabeth Sharpe. Unused medicines sent down toilets wash into our waterways. University of Washington researchers are testing for drugs and chemicals from soap and shampoo in Puget Sound, and they’re checking for their effects on...

Apfel: Tide Power

The Northwest plugs into river energy, so why not the Puget Sound? Amelia Apfel, writing in Seattle Business Magazine, tells of an unusual—and global—collaboration involving the Snohomish County Public Utility District and the University of Washington working to...