Accession Number:

ADA499807

Title:

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

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Apr 2002-Dec 2008

Corporate Author:

WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE

Personal Author(s):

• Kawase, Mitsuhiro
• Devol, Allan
• Logsdon, Miles
• Warner, Mark
• Winn, William
• Newton, Jan
• Johnston, Robert K.
• Wang, P. F.
• Stahr, Frederick R.
• Albertson, Skip
• Shuman, Randy
• Nairn, Bruce

Report Date:

2009-03-30

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

In 2002 National Oceanographic Partnership Program funded a partnership of a university, federal, state and local government agencies, and a private non-profit corporation who share a common interest and concern about a body of water -- Puget Sound, Washington. Designated as the Puget Sound Marine Environmental Modeling PSMEM partnership, the objectives of the partnership were to conduct scientific research aimed at developing fundamental understanding of the Sounds working, as well as addressing practical questions raised by the regional community concerning management of the Sound and its resources. The partnership is a new kind of collaborative effort between academia, government and a private nonprofit organization -- one that capitalizes on existing strength of each and respects the different mandate that each organization carries.

Descriptors:

• *OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS
• *PUGET SOUND
• INFORMATION EXCHANGE
• MODELS
• FLOW VISUALIZATION
• OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
• SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
• OCEANOGRAPHY
• ESTUARIES
• COLLABORATIVE TECHNIQUES
• DATA MANAGEMENT
• SIMULATION
• SHARING

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE