Interview with Dr. Arline Bronzaft In celebration of International Women’s History Month, Chair of the SDA Board, Anne Harvey, interviewed Dr. Arline Bronzaft, a leader research on the adverse effects of noise on mental health, environmental psychologist, and expert witness Read more…
The Washington State Parks Commission met again in a special session and “clarified” that the commission has authorized the director to issue permits for special operations training in state parks, and that, furthermore, nine months after the first permit is Read more…
The Base Building Committee invites you to join us in planning virtual gatherings across the region this spring. Please contact us at info@sounddefensealliance.org if you would like to help. We are also planning a region wide community gathering in April to focus on team Read more…
Sound Defense Alliance stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement now and onwards. Our work to protect all communities in our region from harmful military activity stems from a desire to be heard. To all Black, Indigenous, and Read more…
It goes without saying that 2020 has brought many, many challenges. The team at SDA met those challenges head on and forged ahead! What have we accomplished in 2020? Increased our Organizational Capacity: We have expanded our board, received a generous Read more…
The November elections provided multiple opportunities to move our work forward and some new opportunities for our hard-working team to inform local candidates about the Sound Defense Alliance and our bipartisan work. This included a Q & A information paper on Read more…
In conjunction with the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) lawsuits brought by the State of Washington and COER against the US Navy for its Growler Expansion plan at NAS Whidbey Island, COER filed a preliminary injunction action early in 2020. Read more…
The legislative committee created several documents for the Navy’s Real-time Noise Study. SDA provided a long and a short list of suggested monitoring sites, and a Fact sheet of recommendations for what should be in a Noise Monitoring Study. These Read more…
A briefing on real-time noise testing SDA notified elected officials of preferred sites for the Congressionally mandated noise testing and asked those invited to participate to forward SDA’s concern to NAS Whidbey. After the Navy gave elected officials a briefing Read more…
A Citizen Science Noise Monitoring Program will be launched in mid-July. SDA volunteers, Chris Hurley and acoustic researcher Lauren Kuehne, will be spear-heading this initiative. The citizen science monitoring plan will include between 8 to 12 monitoring sites and is Read more…