March 16, 2023 

My name is Emma Duckworth and I am grateful for the opportunity to be Washington Sea Grant’s undergraduate science communication fellow for the spring of 2023. I grew up in Livermore, California, a small town in the Bay Area about an hour from the coast. Spending much of my childhood outdoors and traveling to the ocean, I quickly developed a love for nature and an interest in environmentalism. ...

February 28, 2023

We are thrilled to welcome Sydney Fishman as a coastal management specialist at Washington Sea Grant.

In this role, Sydney helps shoreline and coastal decision-makers find solutions to their complex management issues. Her work spans the broad areas of shoreline management, shoreline stabilization and coastal resilience.

She fosters a shoreline management community of practice in western Washington with networking, outreach, ...

February 15, 2023

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is pleased to announce its 2024–2027 Strategic Plan. This document will shape the activities, choices and direction of WSG for the next four years within these four program areas: Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development, Resilient Communities and Economies, Healthy Coastal Ecosystems, and Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture. These program areas also directly align with the priorities identified ...

February 1, 2023

We are thrilled to welcome Lisa Watkins as the new community science specialist for the Crab Team at Washington Sea Grant.

Lisa coordinates WSG Crab Team’s volunteer monitoring network, which collects detection data on the invasive European green crab across Washington’s Coastal and Puget Sound regions. She aims to ...