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Puget Sound and Salish Sea – modeling and water quality studies (59 publications 2004-2023)


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South Puget Sound Dissolved Oxygen Study: Interim Nutrient Load Summary for 2006-2007 11-03-001September 2023
Addendum: Puget Sound Nutrient Monitoring Project to Quality Assurance Monitoring Plan: Statewide River and Stream Ambient Water Quality Monitoring 23-03-102August 2023
Addendum 2 to Quality Assurance Monitoring Plan: Long-Term Marine Waters Monitoring, Water Column Program 23-03-109February 2023
Quality Assurance Project Plan: Puget Sound Spatially Referenced Regression on Watershed Attributes (SPARROW) 22-03-109October 2022
Puget Sound Nutrient Synthesis Report, Part 2: Comparison of Watershed Nutrient Load Estimates 19-03-019October 2019
Puget Sound Nutrient Synthesis Report, Part 1: Nutrient Projects Funded by the National Estuary Program Toxics and Nutrients Prevention, Reduction, and Control Cooperative Agreement 19-03-016October 2019
Quality Assurance Project Plan: Spatial and Seasonal Variability in Salish Sea Bottom-Water Microbial Respiration 19-03-106August 2019
Addendum 6 to Quality Assurance Monitoring Plan: Long-Term Marine Waters Monitoring, Water Column Project 19-03-107July 2019
Quality Assurance Project Plan: Ocean Acidification Monitoring at Ecology's Greater Puget Sound Stations 19-03-102January 2019
Puget Sound Nutrient Source Reduction Project. Volume 1: Model Updates and Bounding Scenarios 19-03-001January 2019
Eyes Over Puget Sound: Surface Conditions Report — November 6, 2018. 18-03-075November 2018
Eyes Over Puget Sound: Surface Conditions Report — September 17, 2018 18-03-074September 2018
Budd Inlet/Capitol Lake/Deschutes River Total Daily Maximum Load Study Model Review 14-10-039September 2018
Eyes Over Puget Sound: Surface Conditions Report - July 16, 2018 18-03-073July 2018
Quality Assurance Project Plan: Salish Sea Model Applications 18-03-111June 2018
POSTER: Spatial Distribution of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Biomass in Puget Sound – Establishing a Baseline 18-03-020May 2018
Linde Gas, Anacortes, Water Quality Permit 18-07-008April 2018
POSTER: Using ferry monitoring data to explore the importance of isotherms on the winter survival of Northern anchovy in Puget Sound 18-03-017April 2018
Sensitivity of the regional ocean acidification and carbonate system in Puget Sound to ocean and freshwater inputs. Article published in Elementa Science of the Anthropocene 2018, 6:22. 18-03-015April 2018
Sediment Quality in Puget Sound, 1989-2015 18-03-006February 2018
Sediment Quality in Puget Sound: Changes in chemical contaminants and invertebrate communities at 10 sentinel stations, 1989–2015 18-03-005February 2018
Sediment Quality in Puget Sound: Changes in chemistry, toxicity, and benthic invertebrates at multiple geographic scales, 1989–2015 18-03-004February 2018
Puget Sound Toxics Control: Toxics Projects in Puget Sound, 2011-2018, Funded by the NEP Toxics and Nutrients Prevention, Reduction, and Control Cooperative Agreement 17-03-003September 2017
Salish Sea Model: Sediment Diagenesis Module 17-03-010June 2017
POSTER: Do salinity and temperature in Budd Inlet drive jellyfish mass aggregations? 16-03-037September 2016
Mapping the Nisqually River Delta Using Topobathymetric LiDAR, Aerial Imagery, and Mobile GIS 16-03-020April 2016
Focus on: Understanding the scientific process used for the Budd Inlet, Capitol Lake, and Deschutes River water cleanup plan 15-03-026September 2015
Deschutes River, Capitol Lake, and Budd Inlet Total Maximum Daily Load Study: Supplemental Modeling Scenarios 15-03-002September 2015
Puget Sound Regional Toxics Model: Evaluation of PCBs, PBDEs, PAHs, Copper, Lead, and Zinc 15-03-025August 2015
Quality Assurance Project Plan: Salish Sea Dissolved Oxygen Modeling Approach: Sediment-Water Interactions 15-03-103January 2015
Roofing Materials Assessment: Investigation of Toxic Chemicals in Roof Runoff from Constructed Panels in 2013 and 2014 14-03-033September 2014
Assessment of Nonpoint Pollution in Washington State 14-03-028September 2014
POSTER: Anthropogenic Dissolved Oxygen Impacts in Budd Inlet: Comparing Influences from a Lake or Estuary 14-03-021May 2014
Chambers Creek Dye Study: Final Model Simulation Report 14-03-016April 2014
South Puget Sound Dissolved Oxygen Study: South and Central Puget Sound Water Circulation Model Development and Calibration 14-03-015April 2014
South Puget Sound Dissolved Oxygen Study: Water Quality Model Calibration and Scenarios 14-03-004March 2014
Approach for Simulating Acidification and the Carbon Cycle in the Salish Sea to Distinguish Regional Source Impacts 14-03-002January 2014
Review and Synthesis of Available Information to Estimate Human Impacts to Dissolved Oxygen in Hood Canal 13-03-016March 2013
Puget Sound Dissolved Oxygen Modeling Study: Development of an Intermediate Scale Water Quality Model 12-03-049October 2012
Deschutes River, Capitol Lake, and Budd Inlet Temperature, Fecal Coliform Bacteria, Dissolved Oxygen, pH, and Fine Sediment Total Maximum Daily Load Technical Report: Water Quality Study Findings 12-03-008June 2012
2012 Addendum to Quality Assurance Project Plan: The Puget Sound Assessment and Monitoring Program/Urban Waters Initiative: Sediment Monitoring in the San Juan Islands and Port Gardner/Everett Harbor 09-03-121-Addendum3December 2011
Control of Toxic Chemicals in Puget Sound: Assessment of Selected Toxic Chemicals in the Puget Sound Basin, 2007-2011. 11-03-055November 2011
Control of Toxic Chemicals in Puget Sound: Evaluation of Loading of Toxic Chemicals to Puget Sound by Direct Groundwater Discharge 11-03-023April 2011
Focus on Puget Sound: Update on Control of Toxic Chemicals in Puget Sound 11-03-012February 2011
POSTER: Transport of Heat, Salt, Oxygen, and Freshwater within the Southernmost Extent of South Puget Sound: Year 2010 in Review 10-03-063December 2010
Puget Sound Dissolved Oxygen Modeling Study: Development of an Intermediate-Scale Hydrodynamic Model 14-03-022November 2010
POSTER: South Sound Sediment Quality and Partnership Opportunities for 2011 Sediment Monitoring in South Puget Sound and Budd Inlet 10-03-067November 2010
Addendum to Phase 2 subtask 2F: Evaluation of the recalculated loading rates with the box model of PCBs in Puget Sound 09-03-015-AddendumFebruary 2010
POSTER: Using Models to Compare and Prioritize Actions in Puget Sound: Who’s Modeling What and Why? 09-03-035June 2009
POSTER: Modeling Dissolved Oxygen in Budd Inlet and Capitol Lake 09-03-034June 2009
POSTER: South Puget Sound Dissolved Oxygen Study: Using Models to Inform Management Decisions 09-03-026June 2009
Control of Toxic Chemicals in Puget Sound: Phase 2, Development of simple numerical models: The long-term fate and bioaccumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls in Puget Sound. 09-03-015April 2009
South Puget Sound Dissolved Oxygen Study: Interim Data Report 08-03-037December 2008
Sediment Quality in the Bays and Inlets of the San Juan Islands, Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Admiralty Inlet (2002-2003) - Summary Report 08-03-031December 2008
Focus on Modeling Dissolved Oxygen in Puget Sound 08-03-032September 2008
Focus on: Water Quality Modeling in Puget Sound 08-03-006August 2008
Temporal Monitoring of Puget Sound Sediments: Results of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program, 1989-2000 05-03-016July 2005
Oakland Bay Study: A dye and modeling study in an enclosed estuary with a high degree of refluxing 04-03-020May 2004
Sediment Quality Triad Index in Puget Sound 04-03-008March 2004