Tuesday, June 2, 1998

1:30 Mark Holmes - Welcome and Introductions

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1:35  Mike Gregg - Background Remarks

Beyond Puget Sound: Blue Water Oceanography

1:40  Craig Schilling - The characteristics of salinity in the North Pacific

Circulation Dynamics Over (and near) Embracing Sill Zones
 
1:50 Tor Bjorklund - Characterizing a deep water intrusion at the landward Admiralty Inlet sill

2:00 Nalini Chandran - A look at the distance over which mixing occurs at the seaward sill in Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound
 
2:10 Aaron Lana - Circulation patterns in Possession Sound, Washington, and their effects on the possible distribution of sewage from a new outfall
 
2:20 Russell Jones - Testing the representativeness of data collected by a bottom-mounted ADCP in Possession Sound

CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

2:30 Roy Carpenter - Background Remarks

Fecal Coliform Bacteria in the Ship Canal-to-Shilshole Bay System

2:35 Deanna Akre - Microbial source tracking for the determination of possible origins of Escherichia coli found under the Fremont Bridge and in Shilshole Bay, Seattle, Washington

2:45 Jessica Wilcox - Microbial source tracking for the determination of possible origins of Escherichia coli found under the Montlake Bridge and on the seaward side of the Hiram Chittenden Locks, Seattle, Washington

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2:55 Coffee Break
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Light Water in Puget Sound

3:15 Andy Graham - Dissolved hydrogen concentrations in the upper 50 meters of Puget Sound, Washington

3:25 Kirk Lofgren - Hydrogen consumption and production in the waters of northern Puget Sound and Hood Canal

Heavy Metals in the Sediments and Organisms of Puget Sound

3:35 Julia Bos - An examination of As, Cu, Zn, Mn, Pb, Ag, Sn in the surface sediments of Port Gardner and Hood Canal by ICP-MS

3:45 Dan Donato - Concentrations of Cu, Zn, As, and Ag in the amphipod Cyphocaris challengeri from Port Gardner and Hood Canal, Puget Sound

3:55 Delaney Peterson - Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in two feeding guilds of Polychaetes

4:05 Gerard Van der Jagt - The occurrence of Ag, As, Cu, Pb and Zn in Calanus pacificus taken from Port Gardner and Hood Canal, Puget Sound

Thursday, June 4, 1998

GEOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1:30 Mark Holmes - Background Remarks

The South Whidbey Island Fault Zone
 
1:35 Julie Bowles - Potential field modeling of the South Whidbey Island Fault, northern Puget Sound, Washington:  Deep structure of a transpressional fault

1:45 Monica Olsen - Precision swath bathymetry of the Southern Whidbey Island Fault, Puget Sound: Implications for earthquake hazards and mapping techniques

Paleotsunamis in Northern Puget Sound
 
1:55 Lisa Hodges - Identification of a 1000 yBP tsunami deposit in Puget Sound, Washington:  Analysis of diatoms from the Snohomish River delta

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

2:05 Evelyn Lessard - Background Remarks

Water Quality Issues

2:10 Danielle Bryant - Heterosigma growth in different waters from Puget Sound

2:20 Tracy Duryee - Temporal variability of water quality in the vicinity of the Ballard Locks, Seattle: a possible site for waste water discharge

Nekton and Macrozooplankton Studies

2:30 Rachael Cartwright - Larval abundance of Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) in Dabob Bay in April

2:40 Bill Couch - Plankton net avoidance revisited: The effect of rigging composition (metallic vs. nonmetallic) and vibrations on net avoidance by Euphausia pacifica

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2:50 Coffee Break
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Microbial Dynamics in Puget Sound

3:10 Sheryl Roadruck - Bacterial production and microbial exopolymer secretions in Puget Sound

Plankton Dynamics in Puget Sound

3:20 Kara Johnson - A comparison of the community structure of the nanoplankton and microplankton in two basins in Puget Sound in spring

3:30 Cindy Wagener - Estimating rates of size-fractioned phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in Hood Canal and Main Basin, Puget Sound, Washington

3:40 Chad Iwashita - Diel variation in feeding rates of microzooplankton in Puget Sound