Paralytic shellfish poisoning on the Washington Coast

September 3, 2024

An update on the recent shellfish poisoning event and the safety protocols in place

By Ashleigh Epps, WSG aquaculture specialist

In late May 2024, the Pacific coasts of Oregon and Washington experienced a  paralytic shellfish poisoning harmful algal bloom event. Thirty-one people became sick in Oregon over Memorial Day weekend, which triggered increased paralytic shellfish poisoning testing and the closures of harvest areas by the Department of Health.

No illnesses occurred in Washington. The last time Willapa Bay ...

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Ten recent graduates selected for the 2024-2025 WSG Hershman Fellowship

August 22, 2024

Congratulations to our new WSG Hershman Fellows!

We are pleased to announce that recent graduates Elise Adams, Jessica Clemens, Nika Hoffman, Heeju Jung, Jess Lechtenberg, Allison Morgan, Courtney Murphy, Rondi Nordal, Katalin Plummer and Jack Winterhalter have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship for 2024–2025. This fellowship places highly motivated, qualified individuals with marine and coastal host offices throughout Washington, providing fellows with a unique perspective on building marine policy and allowing them to share ...

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Federal funding will build capacity in Washington coastal Tribes and communities to address hazards due to climate change

August 22, 2024

Coastal Tribes and communities in Washington are on the front lines of climate change. Many are already grappling with associated coastal hazards, including sea level rise and flooding. However, all too often, these communities lack the capacity to adequately address the increasing climate risks that they face. 

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) and the Climate Impacts Group (CIG) — both based at the University of Washington College of the Environment — collectively received $8.1 million in ...

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WSG receives federal funding to support aquaculture initiatives

August 19, 2024

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to receive federal funding through NOAA Sea Grant to supplement its existing initiatives supporting aquaculture in Washington state. Two WSG initiatives are supported by this funding: the Willapa-Grays Harbor Estuary Collaborative and the new Tide’s Out aquaculture workforce training program. 

Launched in April 2022 and facilitated by WSG, the Willapa-Grays Harbor Estuary Collaborative (Collaborative) holds the long-term mission of increasing the resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems in ...

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Meet Jezella Peraza, 2024 WSG Keystone Fellow

August 15, 2024

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to announce that Jezella Peraza, a recent graduate of the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, has been selected as the 2024 WSG Keystone Fellow. Jezella began working with host Seattle Aquarium August 1.

The WSG Keystone Fellowship seeks to build pathways into marine science, policy and related industry ...

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New report shares Northwest coastal Tribes’ needs and barriers in adapting to climate change

August 14, 2024

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) co-led with University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians a new report sharing Northwest coastal tribes’ needs and barriers as they work to adapt to climate change. The report compiles findings from six Tribal listening sessions where Tribal members were invited to share their experiences around climate change adaptation in their communities.

The report, “Climate adaptation barriers and needs experienced by Northwest coastal Tribes: ...

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Flood planning goes local

WSG supports the rollout of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) in Washington state

From the Summer 2024 Sea Star

By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer

The first time Ian Miller, Washington Sea Grant (WSG) coastal hazards specialist, heard about CoSMoS, he was in graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This was around 2009, when the first iteration of CoSMoS was being used to model coastal storms in southern California. While Miller was interested at the time, he ...

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The other tsunamis

Carrie Garrison-Laney’s research paints a fuller picture of Washington’s tsunami risk

From the Summer 2024 Sea Star

By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer

The Big One. It’s the threat looming over all who live in western Washington and the greater Pacific Northwest: a magnitude 9 earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone. A quake from the fault line stretching from Vancouver Island to northern California could create the kind of devastating tsunami documented in Coast Salish Peoples’ stories 300 years ago. Now, ...

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In the hunt for invasive green crab, Molt Search seeks their shedded shells

WSG Crab Team’s new program makes it easy to get involved in invasive species response

From the Summer 2024 Sea Star

By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer

When Lisa Watkins started at WSG as a community science specialist, WSG Crab Team was almost ten years old. The Crab Team monitoring network — a network of several hundred volunteers and partner staff spread all across the state — has spent that decade on the front lines of the European green crab (Carcinus ...

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How do our sea-meadows grow?

WSG-funded research informs the future of eelgrass restoration in Washington

From the Summer 2024 Sea Star

By Erick Dowell, WSG student assistant

 

Beneath the coastal waters of Washington state, if you look in the right spots you’ll find green, grassy meadows. They are not too different from meadows you may want to frolic through on land, but down here the blades of grass undulate with salt water eddies and waves of the sea instead of a gentle summer breeze. Eelgrass (Zostera ...

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Washington Sea Grant will lead collaborative research to model southwest estuaries and advance climate resilience in coastal communities

August 12, 2024

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to have a project selected for funding through the Climate and Fisheries Adaptation (CAFA) program, a partnership between NOAA Research Climate Program Office and the NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology.

The WSG project aims to build on the foundation laid by the Willapa-Grays Harbor Estuary Collaborative (Collaborative). Launched in April 2022 and facilitated by WSG, the Collaborative holds the long-term mission of increasing the resilience ...

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Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Rob Seitz, fisherman, poet and business owner

July 24, 2024

By Brian McGreal, WSG Science Communications Fellow

Recently, Rob Seitz’s sister wished him a happy 31st wedding anniversary and asked what he and his wife Tiffani would be doing to celebrate. “I told her, ‘We’re working with our family serving fish to our community in a business we built together.’”

From Seitz’s upbringing in Alaska to working through the Pacific groundfish collapse of the 2000s to operating his own vessel in Oregon and California, fishing has always been ...

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