Surface conditions on our latest flight
We have reached 100 Eyes Over Puget Sound reports! This issue is the one hundredth issue, a very special decade-in-review report, and the final one in this format. Stay tuned.
Since 2011, we have provided aerial observations documenting visible features at the surface of Puget Sound from a floatplane. This unique aerial perspective featured Puget Sound's natural beauty, oceanographic complexity, ecological treasures, and has raised awareness of the challenges this waterbody is facing today.
Our image-rich documentation of known eutrophication indicators ranged from algal and Noctiluca blooms, macroalgae and jellyfish, to human stressors, and provide a visually captivating time capsule of issues facing Puget Sound.
Over the years, these reports have been rich in educational and outreach material, inspired numerous news reports, and drew academic and public attention, especially during the marine heat wave of the north Pacific, The Blob.
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