The School of Oceanography, University of Washington

Senior Research Projects for 1996

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Welcome to the home page for the Senior Research Projects for 1996 in the School of Oceanography. The projects were completed on 8 June 1996. We invite you to read the abstracts of the final reports. The original home page is still available for your inspection. E-mail addresses, however, have now been deleted.

We thank those of you who have watched our home page since we went on line in December 1995. And we thank those of you who attended the students' symposium.

We invite you to join us in the fall for the call for proposals for the Senior Research Projects for 1997.

We are proud to share with you the following message we received from the Senior Water Quality Planner of King County Water Pollution Control at the conclusion of the students' symposium:

Dear Ocean 460 Faculty and Students,
Date: 30 May, 1996

I would like to express my appreciation for the effort and accomplishment exhibited in the work of the Ocean 460 students and faculty on the research projects related to Elliott Bay and the Duwamish River.

A number of King County(formerly Metro) Water Pollution Control staff and I attended the presentations. Everyone was very impressed by the quality of the research projects, the professionalism of the presentations, and the relevance to our work on improving water quality in the Duwamish and Elliott Bay. We will be able to use the results of this work in a number of ways. Some of the results can be used directly to improve cleanup projects that are already underway in the area. Other projects either suggest areas toward which we need to redirect our assessment efforts or research techniques that might improve our present programs.

As a result of this joint effort we hope to establish and improve the relationships between King County Water Pollution Control, which has the responsibility as a steward of Puget Sound water quality, and the research resources of the University of Washington. I expect that these links between King County Water Pollution Control and the University of Washington will continue.

We are looking forward to receiving the final reports and data appendices from the projects and the opportunity to study the results in more detail.

Sincerely,

Randy Shuman, Ph.D.
Senior Water Quality Planner