Neil Banas

Modeling the Salish Sea (MoSSea)

P MacCready, NS Banas, D Sutherland, K Davis, S Giddings, S Siedlecki

project home page

flowWeaver

An interactive tool for visualizing the circulation of the Salish Sea and Northwest coast

PS-AHAB: Puget Sound Alexandrium Harmful Algal Blooms

PNWTOX: The Columbia River plume and HABs in the Pacific Northwest: bioreactor, barrier or conduit?

with postdoc Kristen Davis

Hypoxia in Lynch Cove, WA

interactive model

poster (CERF, 2009)

context (HCDOP report chapter 3.4)

Ecosystem modeling for the Columbia River plume region

part of the RISE program

more information

Green crab larval retention in Willapa Bay, Washington

NS Banas, PS MacDonald, and DA Armstrong

paper

Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington

Links to the coastal ocean, tidal dispersion, and oyster carrying capacity

papers

interactive tidal model

Adding complex trophic interactions to a size-spectral plankton model

paper

slides from AMEMR 2011

more info

Visualizing nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton dynamics

interactive model (+ download)

Experimental validation of an individual-based model for zooplankton swarming

paper (19 MB scan)

interactive model

Writing Animals

Honors 345B, Spr 2011

co-taught with Sarah Read, English

course homepage

Northwest Coastal Stories: Turbulence in Science and Culture

CHID, Oceanography, Honors, 2004-10

course homepage

World Religions and the Environment

Honors, 2008

course homepage

Humans and Other Animals

CHID, 2001; Honors, 2003, 2007

course homepage

Priests, tricksters, and holy wanderers in the practice of natural history

conference paper (PNW American Academy of Religion, 2002)

Quiet Creatures: A Summer on Long Island

thesis (MA, Religious Studies, Univ of Colorado, 1998)

Seafood pocket guide, 2009

A synthesis and redesign of recommendations from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Environmental Defense Fund

more info + download

2011 update in progress!

Rain (2007)

Appears in Patterns 2: Design, Art, and Architecture (Birkhaüser, 2008)

Beaded flow (2010)

Waft (2009)

Rosette-80 (2007) and other wall drawings

Springypoly (2006)

interactive version

gallery

photostream on flickr

(by collection, by theme, by country, recent)

zoo-ology

Haida Gwaii

Svalbard

cf. Iceland

Linxia, Gansu, China

and other places on earth

the little things that run the world

gannets of Unst

and non-gannets of Unst

religious devotion

the life aquatic