Acknowledgements
The Health of the Salish Sea Ecosystem Report is led by Michael Rylko (U.S. EPA) and Jenny Ferone and Sarah Bartnik (Environment and Climate Change Canada), with support from many individuals and Steering Committee members.
For the most recent update (2020-2021), the following individuals are acknowledged for their dedicated efforts:
- Allie Johnson (Western Washington University)
- Jackson Joly (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Clare Suggett (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Britta Fast (Western Washington University)
Many other contributors have been critical to this effort, including the following individuals and organizations:
Air Quality
- Rita So (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Corinne Schiller (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Nathalie Hamel (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Sean Lundblad (Washington Department of Ecology)
Chinook Salmon
- Nathalie Hamel (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Todd Hass (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Amber Moore (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Chantelle Caron (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
- Antonio Velez-Espino (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
Freshwater Quality
- Monique de Jong (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Nathalie Hamel (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Heidi Siegelbaum (Stormwater Center at Washington State University)
- Markus Von Prause (Washington State Department of Ecology)
Marine Water Quality
- Peter Chandler (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
- Christopher Krembs (Washington State Department of Ecology)
- Dustin Bilhimer (Washington State Department of Ecology)
- Angela Adams (U.S. EPA)
- Margaret McCauley (U.S. EPA)
- Pacific Science Field Operations personnel (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
- Marine Monitoring Unit personnel (Washington Department of Ecology)
Marine Species At Risk
- Joseph Gaydos (SeaDoc Society)
- Nathalie Hamel (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Lisa Ann Jones (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
- Alannah Biega (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
- Heather Brekke (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
Shellfish Beaches
- Scott Berbells (Washington State Department of Health)
- Catherine Gockel (U.S. EPA)
- Paul Moccia (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Jason Komaromi (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Vanassa Daranikone (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
Southern Resident Killer Whales
- Nathalie Hamel (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Todd Hass (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Lynne Barre (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
- Shinjini Pilon (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Christopher Marshall (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Lisa Ann Jones (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
- Alannah Biega (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
- David Bain (University of Washington)
Stream Flow
- David Hutchinson (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Nathalie Hamel (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Jim Shedd (Washington Department of Ecology)
Swimming Beaches
- Heather Hutton (Vancouver Island Health)
- David Jantzen (Vancouver Coastal Health)
- Farida Bishay (Metro Vancouver)
- Bobby Chan (Metro Vancouver)
- Nathalie Hamel (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Julianne Ruffner (Washington State Department of Ecology)
Toxics in the Food Web
- Aroha Miller (OceanWise)
- Cecilia Wong (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Kyle Elliott (McGill University)
- Shinjini Pilon (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Michael Beking (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- John Pasternak (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Samantha Howe (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Sandie O’Neill (Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife)
- Jim West (Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife)
Past Contributions
This report was originally guided by the advice of our Steering Committee, which supported and shaped the indicators that we present. We acknowledge their original contributions:
- Jim Armstrong (MetroVancouver)
- Ginny Broadhurst (now Salish Sea Institute at Western Washington University)
- Lisa Chang (United States Environmental Protection Agency)
- Jamie Donatuto (Swinomish Tribe)
- Ken Dzinbal (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Eric Grossman (United States Geological Survey)
- Ray Harris (Chemainus First Nation)
- Stephanie Hazlitt (British Columbia Ministry of Environment)
- Lynn Landry (MetroVancouver)
- Deb Lekanoff (Swinomish Tribe)
- Randall W. Lewis (Squamish First Nation)
- Emma Norman (now Northwest Indian College)
- Charlie O’Hara (Swinomish Tribe)
- Sandie O'Neill (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)
- Ian Perry (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
- Rowena Rae (British Columbia Ministry of Environment)
- Scott Redman (Puget Sound Partnership)
- Linda Storm (U.S. EPA)
- Angeline Tillmanns (British Columbia Ministry of Environment)
- Jennie Wang (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Cecilia Wong (Environment and Climate Change Canada)