About
The project
The UW team
Karen Chan
Amanda Winans
Olga Kalata
Morrigan Havely
Our partners
Current funding agencies:
| • | King County |
| • | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) |
Map of the zooplankton monitoring stations. Logos show collaborators who collect the samples approximately bi-weekly, either year-round or in spring through fall, depending on the station. At most stations (yellow dots), samples have been collected since 2014. In the Strait of Juan Fuca (red dot), samples have been collected approximately monthly since 2003.
Sampling groups (in alphabetical order):
| • | Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group |
| • | King County |
| • | Kwiáht – Center for Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea |
| • | Lummi Nation |
| • | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
| • | Nisqually Indian Tribe |
| • | Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe |
| • | Stillaguamish Tribe |
| • | Tulalip Tribes |
| • | Washington Department of Ecology (DoE) |
| • | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) |
We are also grateful to the support of:
| • | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| • | Long Live the Kings |
| • | Pacific Salmon Commission |
| • | Puget Sound Partnership |
| • | Washington Department of Natural Resources |
Sampling Protocols
Since 2014, our sampling sites across the Salish Sea have been visited twice a month by our sampling groups. We use vertical and oblique tows in our monitoring program.
Useful files for samplers
- Sampler’s LaunchPad (Updated Nov 20, 2024)
Data
Our data is publicly available.
Full data set of all stations from 2014-2022 can be found on the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS).
Data collected in King County can be accessed and visualized via the County’s Open Data website.
Both data sets are updated annually in early Spring.
Should you require more up to date information or specific data query, please contact Dr. Karen Chan (kychan“at”uw“dot”edu) or Amanda Winans (awinans“at”uw“dot”edu)
Our data is also used to inform other health indices of the Puget Sound Zooplankton Index as part of the Puget Sound Vital Index.
Publications
| Suchy, K.D., E. Olson, S.E. Allen, M. Galbraith, B. Herrmann, J.E. Keister, R.I. Perry, A.R. Sastri, and K. Young. 2023. Seasonal and regional variability of model-based zooplankton biomass in the Salish Sea and evaluation against observations. Progress in Oceanography, 219, 103171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103171. |
| Winans, A. K., B. Herrmann, and J. E. Keister. 2023. Spatio-temporal variation in zooplankton community composition in the southern Salish Sea: changes during the 2015-2016 Pacific marine heatwave. Progress in Oceanography, 214, 103022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103022. |
| Khangaonkar, T., A. Nugraha, S. K. Yun, L. Premathilake, J. E. Keister, and J. Bos. 2021. Propagation of the 2014–2016 northeast Pacific marine heatwave through the Salish Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.787604. |
| Khangaonkar, T., A. Nugraha, L. Premathilake, J. E. Keister, and A. Borde. 2021. Projections of algae, eelgrass, and zooplankton ecological interactions in the inner Salish Sea – for future climate, and altered oceanic states. Ecol. Modell. 441: 109420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109420 |