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2014 Spring | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

Promoting Awareness of Sustainable Landscaping: The Roles of Value and Perception

Student(s):

Ben Au

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment

Site supervisor(s):

Ole Shelton

Partner(s):

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Faculty advisor(s):

Tim Essington, School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, University of Washington

For my capstone project I researched various resources to recreate historic diet data of fishes in Puget Sound. My initial target was to recreate historic forage fish abun- dance from the diet data, but ended up changing my project to focusing on how the diet habits of fish have changed. I was given recent diet data from my faculty advisor and then made graphs with both sets of data to compare and determine change. I narrowed down my topic even more, to just eight different important species of fish in Puget Sound, and found interesting results in each one.