中原大學景觀建築系活動回顧 (二): 與海洋生態學家座談

這次中原景觀系學生來西雅圖的主要作業是設計西雅圖的水岸，由於生態的考量是設計的主軸之一，因此我特別商請有超過二十年保育沿海生態的海洋生態學家、也是系上學姐Meriwether Wilson 來與學生們座談，讓他們瞭解一些在與沿海水岸設計的相關生態知識。 事先Meriwether Wilson非常熱心的提供了西雅圖和普吉灣（Puget Sound）水岸的生態相關網站，以下轉載供參考。

1) REPORTS:
VARIOUS GOOD, SUCCINT REPORTS ON PUGET SOUND NEARSHORE ECOSYSTEM, FUNCTIONS & HABITATS.
http://www.pugetsoundnearshore.org/technical_reports.htm
Re. interest in tides, beaches etc. See in particular the one on 'Geomorphology of Puget Sound Beaches" , and chapter 4 has good discussion on how tides work and influence the shore. The other documents are useful too, at least the Ex. Summaries of most of them.

2) ANOTHER GOOD WEB-INTERACTIVE PRIMER on Puget Sound Nearshore:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/pugetsound/index.html
Click to the 'beaches' box, you will see information on 'tides', tide pools etc.
Within the 'tides' box is a link to current tides
http://www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/washingtonsites.html
and from this they can find 'Seattle' and get tide-data as desired.
E.g. http://www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/washingtonsites.html
E.g. here is tides for November 07 http://www.saltwatertides.com/cgi-local/washington.cgi

3) SEATTLE HISTORY:
www.historylink.org
This one is good for overall history of how Seattle has

4) SHORELINE CHANGE OVER TIME
http://riverhistory.ess.washington.edu/
This one has great pictures and downloadable GIS-based T-SHEET DATA
from 1800s surveys of the shoreline.

5) COMPUTER IMAGERY
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/data/pugetsound/
http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/
http://wagda.lib.washington.edu/

Other useful links for future visions and past history and images:

A. THE FUTURE

CITY OF SEATTLE DEPT OF PLANNING:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/Planning/Central%5FWaterfront/Overview/
This site takes you to info and documents re. the city's waterfront development plans. (realize these were being developed when all thought we were replacing the viaduct tunnel and the seawall.)

http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/Planning/Central_Waterfront/CharretteExhibit/default.asp

#team

This site is a sub-set of above, and shows all kinds of futuristic ideas on what Seattle's waterfront could be

SEATTLE GREEN SPACE:
http://www.open2100.org/
A range of info here re open space and sustainability, if you look on the right side you'll see ref. to 2025 and 2100 neighborhood-watershed based plans. While many of the others above are based on ideas and images, these are a combination of derived from real GIS environment and social data mixed w/ drawings and more creative visions on the same maps.

ALLIED ARTS:

This a group of civic activists trying to make Seattle better. They have sponsored various 'charettes' over the years, they also host these ongoing 'beer and culture' nights a various folks homes/museums etc. to talk about urban development issues in a formal 'debate forum'. Usually at some nice houses and pretty quality debates.
http://www.alliedarts-seattle.org/1_waterfront/collaborative.html

B. THE PAST
If you want to know more about 'history, shoreline change' etc...
UW River History Project
http://riverhistory.ess.washington.edu/
This is a great site / project dealing w/ shoreline change. These guys have digitized some of the original coastal surveys from the late 1800s. If you go to 'data', this takes you first to a way to look at photos of different areas. If you click on TSHEETS - these are the incredible maps (again high resolution huge TIFF files), of the shoreline 100+ years ago.

Also good for more mainstream history is:
www.historylink.org
http://www.historylink.org/This_week/index.cfm

C. ECOLOGY (REALITY)

Here is a great link to very good summary reports on most aspects of shoreline ecology.

http://www.pugetsoundnearshore.org/technical_reports.htm
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/pugetsound/index.html
http://apps.ecy.wa.gov/shorephotos/