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Eyes Over Puget Sound

Seaplane coming in for a landing on the water with mountains in the background.

Eyes Over Puget Sound, or EOPS, is a project that expresses the importance and beauty of the Salish Sea through science and art. During spring to fall, we take to the air to document local marine waters from a unique vantage point. Our mission is to provide visual documentation and information on what is happening in the waterways around Puget Sound using community photo submissions and aerial photography via seaplane and drone flights.

Eyes Over Puget Sound empowers you to:

  • See what is currently happening in Puget Sound.
  • Use Eyes Over Puget Sound as free educational material.
  • Contribute photos of Puget Sound marine observations.
Aerial photo of a blue waterway with a magenta algae bloom on the surface of the water, near a rocky intertidal shore along forested land with houses.

Latest EOPS edition

Our April StoryMap includes aerial observations from our April 4, 2025 seaplane flight.

During our flight we saw gray whale feeding pits, algae blooms, and sediment inputs from rivers carrying snow melt.

We also share photographs submitted by community members of Noctiluca algae blooms in Holmes Harbor, Whidbey Island.

To check out our April 2025 Eyes Over Puget Sound StoryMap, click the photo to the right.

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Contact information

Eyes Over Puget Sound
EOPS@ecy.wa.gov