WSG News Blog

Introducing Washington Sea Grant’s newest student assistants

December 9, 2024

By Maddie Gard, WSG Science Communication Fellow

This fall, we are thrilled to welcome five student assistants, Dana Grant, Emma Klessig, Isaac Olson, Jane Wybenga, and Maya Ades to the Washington Sea Grant (WSG) team. WSG relies on support from student assistants and has selected these five remarkable University of Washington (UW) graduate students to join our various program areas. Student assistant positions offer first-hand experience supporting projects directly connected to WSG’s mission and values. Get to ...

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Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Julia Richfield, food service director at Boistford School

November 26, 2024

By Alison Lorenz, WSG Communications Project Coordinator

For Julia Richfield, 2022 was a year of new things. She moved to a new place–Chehalis, Washington–and got a new job in a new field. With some front-of-house experience in restaurants and zero professional cooking experience, Richfield became the food service director at Boistford School. She went from having never cooked professionally to doing all of the ingredient ordering, menu writing, cooking and serving for the school’s 90 students, preparing breakfast and ...

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Washington Sea Grant deepens its presence on the Pacific Coast with a new office location in South Bend, WA

November 26, 2024

By Maddie Gard, WSG Science Communication Fellow

SOUTH BEND – Last month, Washington Sea Grant (WSG) staff participated in an official ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of Bendiksen Landing, a historic building that has been redeveloped from an aging seafood production facility to include the new WSG South Bend Office. This new office space will deepen WSG’s work to serve communities along Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor, focused on issues such as coastal resilience ...

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Meet Maddie Gard, Science Communications Fellow

November 26, 2024

photo of Madison Gard smiling My name is Madison (Maddie) Gard and I feel eager to serve as Washington Sea Grant’s science communications fellow this fall and winter. I originally grew up in the Sonoran Desert of Tucson, Arizona, with much of my childhood spent hiking and playing outdoors. My fascination with marine ...

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Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Joe Malley, fisherman and owner of St Jude Tuna

October 28, 2024

By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communication Fellow

Prior to his life as a commercial albacore tuna fisher, Joe Malley was a graduate student and mathematics scholar teaching at the University of Oregon. The academic job market at the time left something to be desired. After the Vietnam War, student enrollment rates nationwide were dwindling. As Malley explains it, he realized that his prospects upon getting his PhD amounted to “getting a non-tenure track job at a no-name ...

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Citrus ale spot prawns or shrimp recipe

October 18, 2024

By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communications Fellow

Ocean pink shrimp season is nearly over, so try out this recipe from Alaska Seafood before October’s end to enjoy the freshest catch! Washington’s coastal pink shrimp fishing season lasts April-October each year. While the original source recipe calls for spot prawns, ocean pink shrimp is an ...

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Baked oysters with togarashi butter recipe

July 5, 2024

By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communications Fellow

What’s an oyster’s favorite band? PEARL JAM!

In the Pacific Northwest, oysters are in season year-round. Here’s one delicious way to prepare oysters at home:

Ingredients:

1 stick unsalted butter, softened

¼ cup togarashi spice blend

1 teaspoon lemon zest, plus 3 tablespoons lemon juice

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Dungeness crab mac & cheese recipe

August 2, 2024

By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communications Fellow

Forget lobster mac and cheese, let’s put a Pacific Northwest spin on it with this Dungeness crab mac and cheese recipe from Alaska Seafood.

Ingredients:

1 lb short pasta
1 lb local Dungeness Crab
2 cups asparagus, cut into bite-sized pieces
½ cup butter
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Lemongrass-poached Alaska halibut recipe

September 6, 2024

By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communications Fellow

Summer nights call for quick and light meals. This weekend, try out this simple lemongrass-poached halibut recipe from Alaska Seafood.

Ingredients:

1 stem lemongrass, smashed
2 garlic cloves, smashed
2 tbsp grated ginger
1 chopped shallot
3 cups chicken or veggie stock

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Pink salmon sushi bake recipe

September 27, 2024

By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communications Fellow

It is almost National Seafood Month…and as we approach the end of salmon season in October, here is a recipe from Alaska Seafood to spice up your weekly rotation!

Ingredients

1 14.75 oz can pink salmon or cubed pink salmon fillet
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Four recent Washington graduates are finalists for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

October 17, 2024

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to announce that four recent Washington graduates have been selected as finalists for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.

The Knauss Fellowship is a prestigious one-year fellowship program awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program. Since 1979, the fellowship has provided graduate students the unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience developing and implementing policy on marine, coastal and Great Lakes issues. Fellows ...

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2025, fellowships, finalists, Knauss

Announcing the 8th Annual River & Ocean Film Festival in Forks

September 11, 2024

The event will be held October 18 at the Rainforest Arts Center

Forks, WA – The River & Ocean Film Festival returns October 18, 2024 to celebrate the freshwater and marine environments of the west side of the Olympic Peninsula — and the people who love them. Audiences will enjoy film explorations of Olympic Peninsula rivers and shores and learn about the issues facing its habitats and human communities.

After running annually ...

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Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Maggie Michaels of the High School Seafood Butchery program

September 6, 2024

By Brian McGreal, WSG Science Communications Fellow

In the spring of 2024, students at high schools up and down the Oregon coast engaged with a different sort of education. Armed with sharpened knives and fish scalers, high school students learned to debone albacore, filet salmon and shuck oysters under the auspices of the Oregon Coast Visitors Association’s newly launched Seafood Butchery Pilot Program. Designed to increase young people’s awareness and interest in jobs in the ...

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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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