Intertidal organisms face highly variable environments with a multitude of stresses placed on them. Freshwater input from rain and run off is one such stress. Salinity changes have been shown to have adverse developmental ...

Boating traffic can disturb and negatively affect normal behaviors of marine birds, including foraging. Surveys of seabirds were performed on two vessel routes with different types of boat traffic in the San Juan Islands, ...

The Elwha River dam removal project is expected to deliver fine grained sediment to the Elwha nearshore environment, thus potentially changing the substrate and affecting the macrobenthic invertebrate that inhabit it. This ...

This study investigates sea star wasting disease seen in ecologically important predatory sea stars on intertidal coasts of San Juan Island, Lopez Island and Orcas Island (Washington, United States). Three experiments were ...

Human induced disturbances affect harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) hauled-out off Yellow Island, WA. Disturbances, in this study, include sailboats, motorboats, wake height, and distance of boats to haul-out sites (0 to 200 ...

Environmental changes can affect the abundance and community structure of various intertidal organisms. Water flow rate is a determining factor in food abundance and settling rate of food particles. For this study, we ...

Salinity fluctuations are common in the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest and are expected to become more common as global warming continues to increase the rate of glacial melting. The salinity can drop down to as low ...

Seagrasses are facing a global population decline and bottom cover has grown sparser in many locations. Garrison Bay, in the San Juan Archipelago, was the site of a complete loss of eelgrass (Zostera marina) in 2003, and ...

The temperate sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima participates in a facultative symbiosis with two genera of unicellular photosynthetic algae. Under stressful conditions such as increased levels of pCO2, anemones expel ...

In this study, we investigated how intertidal algal canopies affect susceptibility of limpets to predation and also how the temperature experienced by limpets at low tide affects limpet susceptibility to predation at high ...