The Seattle Times features UW SRP research on contaminants in salmon

Michael Caputo, Richard Ramsden and Stuart Munsch collect fish in a beach seine in the Puyallup estuary.
Michael Caputo, Richard Ramsden and Stuart Munsch collect fish in a beach seine in the Puyallup estuary. Photo by Andrew Yeh

Lynda Mapes recently featured research by UW Superfund Research Program Director, Evan Gallagher, his student Andrew Yeh, and their @NOAA colleague, James Meador in a story for the Seattle Times. Gallagher and colleagues recently showed that Puget Sound chinook are especially hard hit by the tens of thousands of pounds of drugs and chemicals that get dumped into Puget Sound each year. Their results were published in the February issue of Environmental Pollution. Mapes also spoke about the findings in an interview on KUOW