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	<title>Sea Life</title>
	
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	<description>Explore aquatic animals, plants and seaweeds that inspire everything from cinematic monsters to tasty dishes to local economies.</description>
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		<title>Beach Walk on the big screen and jellies in the water</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recognition Puget Sound Starts Here Month, Kitsap Commissioner Charlotte Garrido is sponsoring a showing of Beach Walk: A Naturalist’s Review at the Dragonfly Cinema (822 Bay Street, Port Orchard) on Thursday, May 24th at 6:30. As an added bonus, we’ll be exploring the Port of Bremerton’s Port Orchard Marina‘s sea life immediately after. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Ocean Frontiers”: Working together can really work!</title>
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		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2012/04/25/ocean-frontiers-working-together-can-really-wor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harvest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invasive Species]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ocean Frontiers doesn’t have a dragonfly inspired alien or a mutant invasive snakehead fish (I love that stuff!), but it is an opportunity to see some inspiring examples of how stakeholders with very different interests can address issues in ocean conservation… to mutual benefit. After a brief introduction, the case studies begin with an amazing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be a star: Become a Kitsap Beach Naturalist</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/puget-sea-life/~3/DB4vZwkoWks/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2012/03/16/be-a-star-become-a-kitsap-beach-naturalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sea Squirts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spineless (marine)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How can sea squirts be our cousins? Why do barnacles hold the record for masculine endowment? Why is nori so good for you and sweet kombu so tasty? What would a skeleton shrimp Halloween costume look like? Why doesn’t muscle stand a chance against hydro power? It’s my belief that whether life led to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawn from the deep</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seaweeds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so we’re unlikely to witness the rise of a leviathan, but tomorrow evening (Saturday 2/18 from 7:30-8:30), you can join Kitsap Beach Naturalists, along with me and my WSU Kitsap Extension colleague Peg Tillery at the Bremerton Marina (map). We’re taking a break from the night time low tides to explore the subtidal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surf’s up on the Salish Sea</title>
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		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2011/11/02/surfs-up-on-the-salish-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ducks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sense of place]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leave the board on your woodie though. Surf scoters (one of my top five most beautiful ducks) have moved in for the winter. The dramatic contrast of black/white/orange on the male surf scoter’s head is strikingly beautiful, though the Halloween colored heads are not the only reason I connect with these birds. Surf scoters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whales and bugs, snails and slugs, seaweed and salmon too</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a plug. In part because Washington Sea Grant is a sponsor, but in larger part because this is a great opportunity not to be missed and to be encouraged into the future! Inspired by the South Sound Science Symposium and Island County’s Sound Waters, Kitsap Beach Watchers volunteers and staff are bringing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windy days and low dissolved oxygen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stressors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hood Canal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NANOOS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a good day to breath air in the southern Hood Canal. Once again, winds from the south push Hood Canal’s water north and leave southern Hood Canal belching&#160; oxygen depleted water up to the surface. I blogged about it September 20th last year (From the south blows an ill wind) with some details and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thingy Thursday: Catch cards and a confounding crab</title>
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		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2011/09/22/thingy-thursday-catch-cards-and-a-confounding-crab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crabs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Few of us get a chance to see the full diversity of the Salish Sea’s crabs. Many species never venture onto the beaches. Others are small and hide well. Some even remain tucked away inside a large clam or mussel. For all the wonder, economic benefit and gastronomical pleasure crabs provide, there are several species [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep the butter out of your belly and your shovel out of the sand</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/puget-sea-life/~3/fqftfti7uDU/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2011/08/03/keep-the-butter-out-of-your-belly-and-your-shovel-out-of-the-sand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crabs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) toxins produced by microscopic marine algae… King and east Kitsap Counties are closed to harvest of all shellfish species including clams and geoduck, oysters, mussels, and other invertebrates such as the moon snail (which are no longer legally harvestable anyway). The meat from crabs is not known to contain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Express your inner scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[butterflies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spartina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Get home from a day’s labor, crack a beer, sit on the porch and appreciate a butterfly nectaring on a nearby flower and the evening summer sun that makes a dragonfly glow while it hunts with incredible speed and precision, eating on the fly. Is that bush blooming already? You just won a tough case [...]]]></description>
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