• New Education Video: Rain Shadow Explorers
• Minus Tide Beach Walk
• Special Message from Executive Director and Board President
• Upcoming Meetings: May 10 and June 14
• Give Big at https://app.neonraise.com/donate/16582
• Volunteer Opportunities:
  • Beach Cleanups
  • Intertidal Monitoring
  • Trapping Invasive Giant Hornets
  • Education Programs with Partner Organizations

• New gray whale video
• Volunteers needed for bluff study, intertidal monitoring, beach cleanups, eco-challenge
• April 12 meeting announcement: speaker Dr Ian Miller on Sea Level Rise in Island County
• Background Check Authorization Form
• Slack Training, technology training options
• Rhizome Collective hired to make new SWS website
• Help purchase a new camera for educational videos
• Crabby Meditation Invitation

• Thank you SWU sponsors
• The Problem with PPE Litter (new video)
• What is this mysterious forest puzzler?
• Midlittoral Zones 2 and 3
• Volunteers Needed: Bluff Monitoring, Beach Cleanups and more
• SWS Member Meetings: March 8 - Eli Wheat PhD on Regenerative Agriculture & April 12- Ian Miller PhD on Sea Level Rise
• Karis Barnes named Volunteer of the Year
• Help Stop Salmonellosis in Bird Feeders

• How to Become a Member of Sound Water Stewards - apply by March 8, 2021
• Sign up Now for Sound Waters University on Feb 6, 2021
• Creature Feature: Sea Stars & Sea Star Wasting Disease monitoring on Camano Island
• Take a Winter Beach Walk in the Upper Beach (Zone One or Splash Zone)
• Stop Plastic Pollution: Recycle Holiday Light Strings and Unused Cords
• Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban goes into effect soon (delayed by Covid)
• Arlington-Stillaguamish Eagle Festival is Jan 23-Feb 13
• Online Learning Opportunities
• Messages from Board President Linda Ade Ridder and Executive Director Kelly Zupich
• SWS Meetings, Trainings, Volunteer Opportunities

Monthly Members Meetings

• Dec 14, 2020 - Meet n Greet - Learn about 2021 Volunteer Opportunities
• Jan 11, 2021 - Speaker Adrienne Ross Scanlon, author at 10:30 am (business meeting at 10 am)
• Feb 8, 2021 - Speaker Loren Brokaw, WDFW on Leque Estuary Restoration at 10:30 am (business meeting at 10 am)

Sound Waters University - Feb 6, 2021 - Registration is open - Keynote and other speakers announced

Thank you for Grants for Video Equipment

King Tides Coming Mid-December

Thank you outgoing board members

See pictures of the decorated orca sculpture at Freedom Park on Camano

• Meet the Class of 2020
• With appreciation to the Volunteer Education and Training Committee (VETC)
• Education Committee Report: Upcoming Activities at Central Whidbey State Parks, First Day Hikes, Videos for Schools, more online educational videos
• SWS Committee Openings: New Stewardship Committee, VETC, SWU, Citizen Science Committee
• Orca Eco-Challenge: Kristina T got the most points of all participants
• Orca Month Art Contest Winners
• SWS Meetings: Nov 17, Dec 3-4-5, Dec 14
• Time to nominate Jan Holmes Coastal Volunteer of the Year Award 
• SWS receives $2000 from Whidbey Community Foundation

• Orca Recovery Eco Challenge
• Sea Star Wasting Disease
• Pigeon Guillemot Survey Earns Recognition 
• Become a Champion for Sound Waters University
• Letter from the Board President Linda Ade Ridder
• Letter from Executive Director Kelly Zupich
• September Member Meeting with Speakers from University of WA on the Seattle Seawall Salmon Habitat Restoration and recent sightings of salmon

What's New?

• Camano Close Up Contest
• Art & Sciences Workshop for Kids in or near Coupeville (watercolor journaling, nature journaling)

SWS Meetings & Trainings

• Sep 14 - All Members via zoom - with Randy Berthold PhD talking about kelp surveys and ecosystem
• Oct 13 - All Leads Meeting
• Nov 17 - SWS Annual Meeting
• SLACK - multiple options in Sept

Volunteer Opportunities

• Fishing Line Collection
• Deception Pass Park Foundation 
• Orca Recovery Day/Month - Orcatober

Training Opportunities

• Oil Spill Response

Getting to the Water's Edge - now at more stores

About SWU 2021

• Sea Star Video by SWS
• SWS Meetings - Aug 26 & Sep 14
• Seeking SWS Volunteers
• Speaker Series
• Auction Committee
• Iverson Spit Cleanup
• Juvenile Forage Fish
• Project Updates
• Elger Bay Green Crab Team
• Salish Sea Pigeon Guillemot Breeding Survey
• Camano Crabber Education
• Eelgrass and Seining

• Getting to the Water's Edge (the book) is Here!
• Creature Feature: The Savory Varnish Clam
• Catch More Crab Advice
• Annual SWS Member Training Goes Virtual
• Profile of a Member of Class of 2020
• Message from the President, Linda Ade Ridder
• Message from the NEW Executive Director, Kelly Zupich
• SWS Volunteer Opportunities
• Slack: A new Way to Connect for members, projects, activities OR to share photos, videos, ideas
• Fill Your Holes Beach Ettiquette
• Support SWS: license plates, Amazon Smile, Direct Donation

• New Videos Created by SWS
• June Low Tides Reveal Moon Snail Egg Casings
• June Meeting Announcements (June 15 fearuting Cindy Hansen of Orca Network and June 24 with news about our guide book, Getting to the Water's Edge)
• Seeking Volunteers for specific projects
• Who Does What - among staff
• Ways to Help

Seeking Volunteers for 

• Restocking Coupeville Wharf Display
• Looking for Pigeon Guillemots on the Water around Camano

Numerous Self Education & Online Training Opportunities

Washington "Safe Start" 4-Phase Plan to ReOpen as Covid-19 diminishes

Bioluminescence - amazing videos

Seeking SWS Volunteers for

• Bull Kelp monitoring - both Camano and Whidbey
• Pigeon Guillemot nest monitoring - Camano
• Forage Fish Egg monitoring - Whidbey

Contents

• Message from Board President Linda Ade Ridder in the time of Covid-19 Closures
• Welcome Tabitha, new Whidbey Coordinator
• Welcome Miguel, new Technology Consultant
• Recent Accomplishments including Sound Waters University 2020
• Self Education - Continuing Education webinars you can do at home
• Members' Art on the theme of Spring: Poetry, Prose, Photos, Art
• Announcing new Facebook Group page where everyone can share

Contents

• 2020 Training
• Snow Goose and Birding Festival
• "Humpback Comeback" presentation
• Green Crab
• Book Review: The New Beachcomber’s Guide to the Pacific Northwest
• Low Tide Beach Walk
• Leque Island Restoration Project
• Camano 101

Contents

• Creosote Removal from our shores
• Sea Level Rise
• Bagging Mussels for Study
• Creature Feature: fly amanita mushroom

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