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Seaweeds of Washington State

A Collection from Dan Penttila

Introduction

Dan Penttila is a career biologist working for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). Dan is most famous for his ground-breaking research into the life cycles of forage fish (those that a variety of birds, marine mammals and fish feed upon); specifically:

sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus),
surf smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus), and
Pacific herring (Clupea harengus pallasi).

He and a team of WDFW biologists have been sampling the marine shorelines of Washington state in a search for the spawning areas used by these species.

Dan's interests and work qualify him for the traditional title of "naturalist" (in modern terms, "environmental scientist"), and has gathered these seaweeds as a part of his curiosity of nature in general.

These web pages offer a partial display of Dan's personal collection. They have been chosen for inclusion because herring tend to prefer these species to affix their spawn, and this page was designed as an aid to fish biologists in identifying the algae. It is not a comprehensive collection of all of the species native to the state's marine waters.

With thanks to Dan, we present this collection to you...

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