Slide 1
Greetings-- As Principal Investigator for the Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program's Integrated Assessment and Modeling Study please join me, Jan Newton, in this narrated slide show on what we do and don't know about Hood Canal and the processes that are involved with the lack of oxygen we are observing. I want to explain the scientific underpinnings of the issue to provide for an enhanced understanding. After a brief introduction to the Hood Canal low oxygen issue in slides 2-5, slides 6-27 are a science primer for those of you who aren't up on oceanographic processes. Then, in slides 28-40, I present what we know from the monitoring and survey data we have. Slides 41-57 describe possible hypotheses for the situation we observe. Finally, slides 58-71 describe our strategy for dealing with this issue and the scientific study we are undertaking. First, to introduce myself, I work as a Principal Oceanographer at the Applied Physics Lab of the University of Washington and am also an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the UW School of Oceanography. I was trained as a biological oceanographer (Ph.D. in 1989) and have worked on the oceanography and water quality of our local waters for many years. I worked at the Washington Department of Ecology for over ten years assessing Washington State's marine water quality.