4/22 Water jelly, Salish Sea Earth Days, Josie Osborne, Day Cr settlement, orcas, Hal Beecher, colonial science, week in review

Water jellyfish [Dave Cowles]

 
Water jellyfish Aequorea victoria
This is the largest of our local Hydrozoan jellyfish, though the Scyphozoan jellyfish can grow much larger. Feeds mainly on gelatinous plankton such as Mitrocomella polydiademata and other hydromedusae, on ctenophores, on polychaetes, and on appendicularians.  It may occasionally be cannibalistic.  Also eat larval fish such as Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi.  This species is bioluminescent and may flash brightly when disturbed. (Walla Walla University)

Our island reader responds to yesterday's comment on pumped storage: "I couldn’t agree more with the writer’s advice, which few if any will consistently follow, which is to reduce power demand, thus saving what Amory Lovins coined “negawatts” over 40 years ago. This is where we need to focus, but no one can get a handle on it because our lifestyle is considered to be a right, not a privilege earned from nature."

'Invest In Our Planet': How to celebrate Earth Day around Puget Sound
"Invest In Our Planet" — that's the theme of Earth Day 2022, happening this Friday, April 22. Abby Luschei reports. (Seattle Refined)

Earth Day 2022: Where events are being held in B.C.
Here's a list of some of the events happening in B.C.'s bigger municipalities (all times PT) throughout the week. Events will also be held in smaller communities across the province. (CBC)

Land and water in B.C. has a new ministry. We spoke with its leader
Josie Osborne is now B.C.’s Minister of land, water and resource stewardship and the minister in charge of fisheries, taking on some of the province's most challenging files. Matt Simmons reports. (The Narwhal)

Day Creek landowners settle with Skagit Fisheries, R2 Resource Consultants
Concerned Citizens for Day Creek signed a settlement agreement Thursday with Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group and R2 Resource Consultants in response to property damage that followed a restoration project. After mediation, Skagit Fisheries and R2 Resource Consultants agreed to pay the landowners of Day Creek a settlement and in return will be relieved of all responsibility associated with the project. The monetary compensation given to the landowners is confidential. Maddie Smith reports. (Skagit Valley Herald)

How orcas are a better version of us
Orca researcher Dr. Deborah Giles hopes her work can save this ancient species. Sarah Hoffman reports. (Crosscut)

How my grandfather the fish ecologist changed the nation — and me
Hal Beecher loves nature. Hal's grandchild, RadioActive's Rhea Beecher, talked with him about a time when that love was pushed to its limits in a court case that affected the nation. Rhea Beecher reports. (KUOW)

An Indigenous Scientist On Purging Colonialist Practices From Science
Jessica Hernandez in an excerpt from Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science writes: "I recall in my graduate school that a professor was very mad that his potential research project was cancelled because the local federally recognized tribes of the state of Washington were not interested in creating marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Puget Sound and Salish Sea...This is the settler colonialism that is embedded in conservation, where non-Indigenous scientists have not developed the same relationships with the local environment as tribes who have been cherishing these relationships for generations." (Science Friday)

Salish Sea News Week in Review 4/22/22: Earth Day!, retreating glaciers, intertidal OR, BC Hydro, salmon kill, cruise ship pollution, reversing Trump, hauling salmon, Biden's old growth, Vancouver barge

Now, your weekend tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  240 AM PDT Fri Apr 22 2022   
TODAY  NW wind to 10 kt becoming 5 to 15 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 9 ft at 14 seconds subsiding to  7 ft at 14 seconds in the afternoon. 
TONIGHT  W wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell  6 ft at 13 seconds. 
SAT  W wind to 10 kt becoming NW 10 to 20 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 1 ft or less building to 1 to 3 ft in the afternoon. W  swell 5 ft at 12 seconds. 
SAT NIGHT  NW wind 10 to 20 kt becoming W to 10 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft subsiding to 1 ft or less after  midnight. W swell 3 ft at 11 seconds. 
SUN  SE wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 6 ft  at 13 seconds.

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