Beam Reach: 061 service projects

Partner: Friends of the San Juans

Monitoring water quality and eelgrass decline

Set-up for September 16, 2006, Annual Meeting on Shaw Island

Guest speaker: Peter Ross

Partner: Northwest Straits marine conservation initiative

Creosote log mapping and removal

Peggy and Rena were trained by Roann on Friday, September 8, how to identify, flag, and map creosote-soaked logs. The logs are a non-point source of pollution known to leach toxic compounds (especially, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs) into the marine environment.

Partner: The Whale Museum

Orca adoption program

Beam Reach students provide blog reports on specific animals to enrich the information provided to people who have adopted a southern resident through the Whale Museum.