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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ecology’s Marine News: “EYES OVER PUGET SOUND”</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Surface condition report
<span style="color:red">“2020 in review”</span> is now available.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eopugetsound.org%2Farticles%2Feyes-over-puget-sound-2020-year-review&data=04%7C01%7Cckre461%40ecy.wa.gov%7C745c18885e0a4422bfff08d8b8bc99e4%7C11d0e217264e400a8ba057dcc127d72d%7C0%7C0%7C637462467462302111%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Iyse45tIhiOi%2Bk2QJTeFHLykXKzHYhygfuRLhj4vcu0%3D&reserved=0">https://www.eopugetsound.org/articles/eyes-over-puget-sound-2020-year-review</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366"><img border="0" width="624" height="468" style="width:6.5in;height:4.875in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D6EA66.D53C9750"></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366">At a glance:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The COVID pandemic of 2020 caused an inevitable gap in our work, but our monitoring work is now back to normal. Despite a dry warm September causing wildfires and smoke, yearly precipitation averages were normal. To the north, more rain
coincided with high Fraser River flows. Thanks to the many volunteers who contributed photographs, we can say that 2020 was a productive year for Puget Sound: schools of herring, Noctiluca, and reports of decaying organic material were numerous. Beautiful
photographs of critters in water, and creative tales of critters in the sediment, are testaments that life continues.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#44546A">________________________________________________________________________________</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The pdf document is around 10 MB, upload times may vary. It has clickable navigation links.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Christopher Krembs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Oceanographer, Marine Monitoring Unit<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Environmental Assessment Program<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Washington State Department of Ecology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">300 Desmond Dr. SE, Lacey<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">e-mail: <a href="mailto:ckre461@ecy.wa.gov">ckre461@ecy.wa.gov</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tel: 360-407-6675<o:p></o:p></p>
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