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WSG News Blog
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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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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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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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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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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July 29, 2024
Forks, WA – The River & Ocean Film Festival returns in 2024 to celebrate the freshwater and marine environments on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula. On October 18 in Forks, Washington, short films from the peninsula and beyond will showcase the region’s beauty and ...
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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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July 17, 2024
Goodwin contributed to Washington Sea Grant through various roles for nearly 50 years
We are sad to share the news of the passing of former Washington Sea Grant (WSG) staff member Bob Goodwin. Goodwin died on May 3, 2024 at his home in Wenatchee, Washington, after a year of fighting cancer. He was 86 years old.
Family, friends and colleagues are invited to join for a ...
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Washington’s Clean Marina Program celebrates Leschi and Lakewood Marinas’ Clean Marina certification
July 15, 2024
The Northwest Marine Trade Association (NMTA), Washington Sea Grant and others today announced the certification of Leschi and Lakewood Marinas, managed by Marina Management LLC, as Clean Marinas. The prestigious Clean Marina certification, established by NMTA in partnership with Sound Keepers, requires marinas to undergo a rigorous assessment of their environmental practices and plan improvements for the future.
“Recently our marinas at Leschi and Lakewood on Lake Washington were awarded the Clean Marina certification. This acknowledgement serves as a ...
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July 10, 2024
By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Growing up in Washington state and a member of the Makah Tribe, Roger Bain’s ancestral and more-recent family history might suggest that he was destined to become a fisherman. The Makah people refer to themselves as qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌, which translates approximately to “The People who live near the Rocks and the Seagulls.” Aquatic organisms are integral to the Makah way of life, and they fish everything from whales to salmon ...
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July 1, 2024
Thirteen Washington marinas have recertified under the state’s Clean Marina program so far in 2024.
To become a certified Clean Marina, a marina must meet a set of minimum pollution prevention requirements, identify sustainability goals and activities, and create a plan to achieve them over a three-year period. For example, a ...
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June 27, 2024
The Dean’s Office of the University of Washington’s College of the Environment and Washington Sea Grant (WSG) have announced a new model for WSG leadership that will add a faculty director to the WSG leadership team. WSG is excited to welcome Dr. Terrie Klinger, professor in the College of the Environment’s School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (SMEA) and longtime Sea Grant partner, on July 1 as the initial faculty director on an interim ...
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June 27, 2024
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer
To friends and family, Nick Mendoza has always been “the fish guy.” From what he describes as an “uncanny obsession” with fish in his youth to his work as a marine scientist, a love of the ocean is as inherent to Mendoza as his entrepreneurial spirit. Perhaps these traits explain why, amid constant texts from loved ones asking how to eat more, and more sustainable, seafood, Mendoza saw not a challenge, ...
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