Science on the Sound is a bi-weekly set of presentations by guest speakers about an area in their field of expertise. http://flightline.highline.edu/mast/SpeakerSeries-2008-09.htm en-us Apr, 10 2009 3:12:03 PST Apr, 10 2009 3:12:03 PST Our very own Puget Sound waters are home to the largest species of octopus in the world, the Giant Pacific Octopus. With eight arms, three hearts and blue blood they are one of the worlds smartest invertebrates and have personalities to prove it. Come learn with Seattle Aquarium Naturalist, Giovannina Souers as she explains the basics of octopus anatomy and behavior and shares stories about octopuses at the Seattle Aquarium. http://flightline.highline.edu/mast/SotS2009/octopus.htm Science Education Apr, 10 2009 3:12:03 PST Join poet and naturalist Holly Hughes as she shares stories from two decades working on the sea in Alaska as a commercial fisherman and naturalist. She’ll read from her chapbook, Boxing the Compass, and will talk about how the rich language of navigation and the sea informs her poems and essays. Holly Hughes’ chapbook Boxing the Compass won the Floating Bridge chapbook contest in 2007. She is the editor of Beyond Forgetting: Poems and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, forthcoming from Kent State University Press in April. She spends her winters teaching writing at Edmonds Community College where she co-directs the Convergence Writers Series and the Sustainability Initiative and her summers working on boats as a naturalist in Alaska. http://flightline.highline.edu/mast/SotS2009/poetry.htm Science Education Apr, 10 2009 3:12:03 PST How was the great body of water we call the Puget Sound formed? What is altering it today? Come find out the geologic history of this great body of water from time when it was the edge of the continent, to the cutting of the great glacial troughs to its continuing warping by faults and expansion by erosion. http://flightline.highline.edu/mast/SotS2009/formation.htm Science Education Apr, 10 2009 3:16:07 PST Always wanted to know what scuba divers see when they dive in Puget Sound? An insider’s look at the wacky, colorful marine critters found down there, and what it takes to dive in our cold emerald green waters. http://flightline.highline.edu/mast/SotS2009/formation.htm Science Education Apr, 10 2009 3:16:07 PST