[5] Science Panel Named To Help Puget Sound Rehab Effort
A panel of scientists has been chosen by the leadership council of the Puget Sound Partnership in its efforts to develop an action plan for restoring regional waters, whose job will now include overseeing the salmon recovery plan developed for the 14 watersheds represented in the Shared Salmon Strategy, which is slated to shut down at the end of the year.
The Shared Strategy's Puget Sound Recovery Council may stay together to advise the PSP leadership in the fish recovery effort, according to comments posted on the Shared Strategy's website by its executive director, Jim Kramer.
Other duties for the new panel include guiding the implementation and coordination of a Puget Sound assessment and monitoring program and providing oversight of a process for soliciting, assigning priorities and funding research and modeling projects.
"Some of the state's top scientists are now on board to help ensure this effort is a success," said David Dicks, executive director of the Puget Sound Partnership. "Their expertise and input is critical to developing a restoration plan that is grounded in good science."
The panel was chosen from a pool of candidates selected by the Washington State Academy of Sciences, whose main job is to answer questions from the governor or the legislature.
The members include: Joel Baker, environmental science professor at the Tacoma branch of the University of Washington; Guy Gelfenbaum, an oceanographer with the U.S. Geological Survey; Robert Johnston, senior scientist with the U.S. Navy; Jan Newton, University of Washington, principal oceanographer at UW's Applied Physics Laboratory; Timothy Quinn, WDFW's chief scientist of the WDFW's habitat program since 1999; Frank Shipley, a western regional biologist with U.S. Geological Survey; John Stark, Washington State University professor and scientist; Usha Varanasi, science and research director of NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center; and Katharine Wellman, a marine environmental economist with Northern Economics, Inc. -B. R.
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