1st Edition

Making and Unmaking of Puget Sound

By Gary C. Howard, Matthew R. Kaser Copyright 2022
240 Pages 19 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

240 Pages 19 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

240 Pages 19 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers. The watershed is enormous, covering nearly 43,000 square kilometers with thousands of rivers and streams. Geological forces, volcanos, Ice Ages, and changes in sea levels make the Sound a biologically dynamic... Read more

Chapter 1 Puget Sound Then and Now

Chapter 2 Geological Origins of the Puget Sound

Chapter 3 Water

Chapter 4 Geomorphology of Puget Sound

Chapter 5 Early Biology of Puget Sound

Chapter 6 Humans Arrive

Chapter 7 Puget Sound Today

Chapter 8 Biology of Puget Sound

Chapter 9 Protecting and Restoring Puget Sound

Chapter 10 Puget Sound in the Future

Index

Biography

Gary C. Howard is science editor and writer. He spent over 20 years at the Gladstone Institutes of the University of California San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at Harvard University. He has edited several books, including three books for CRC Press.

Matthew R. Kaser is a Senior Partner at Bell & Associates in San Francisco and has been a part-time lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University East Bay. He was on the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics, UCSF, an NIH Fellow at Habor-UCLA Medical Center and held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of California Irvine, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and at Oxford University.