Modeling the 1100 bp paleotsunami in Puget Sound, Washington

A tsunami about 1000 years ago in puget sound, washington.

Water surged from Puget Sound sometime between 1000 and 1100 years ago, overrunning tidal marshes and mantling them with centimeters of sand. One overrun site is 10 kilometers northwest of downtown Seattle; another is on Whidbey Island, some 30 kilometers farther north. Neither site has been widely mantled with sand at any other time in the past 2000 years. Deposition of the sand coincided-to t...

A Partnership for Modeling the Marine Environment of Puget Sound, Washington

A National Oceanographic Partnership Program Award A Partnership for Modeling the Marine Environment of Puget Sound, Washington – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Report

Long-Term Goals Estuaries, fjords and sounds are important, major components of marine ecosystems worldwide. Because of this, and their generally poor treatment by man, large estuaries should be the focus of large-scale, multidisciplinary, integrative modeling efforts. We need to both understand how these systems work, and be able to predict how they will respond to changes, whether natural or ...

A Partnership for Modeling the Marine Environment of Puget Sound, Washington – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard/Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Report

Estuaries, fjords and sounds are important, major components of marine ecosystems worldwide. Because of this, and their generally poor treatment by man, large estuaries should be the focus of largescale, multidisciplinary, integrative modeling efforts. We need to both understand how these systems work, and be able to predict how they will respond to changes, whether natural or anthropogenic. Pu...

Modeling Urban Patterns and Landscape Change in Central Puget Sound

Patterns of urban development across the United States are changing natural landscapes and their dynamics. Although scholars in landscape ecology are increasingly studying the relationship between urban development and ecological conditions, few have directly addressed the question of how patterns of urban development affect landscape dynamics. In this paper we first propose that landscape patt...