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May 2023
Molt Search Volunteer Training (Pierce County)
Washington Sea Grant and Washington State University Extension have teamed up to launch a new volunteer-based early detection program to complement the existing Crab Team monitoring network. This event includes a 2-hour workshop where you will learn how to identify crab molts, where and how to conduct a 20-minute Molt Search survey, how report your findings using the MyCoast mobile app, and optionally how to collect additional data on Dungeness crab molts. Sign me up! If you are interested in getting involved…
Find out more »June 2023
Molt Search Volunteer Training (Jefferson County)
Washington Sea Grant and Washington State University Extension have teamed up to launch a new volunteer-based early detection program to complement the existing Crab Team monitoring network. This event includes a 2-hour workshop where you will learn how to identify crab molts, where and how to conduct a 20-minute Molt Search survey, how report your findings using the MyCoast mobile app, and optionally how to collect additional data on Dungeness crab molts. Sign me up! If you are interested in…
Find out more »Molt Search Volunteer Training (Skagit County)
Washington Sea Grant and Washington State University Extension have teamed up to launch a new volunteer-based early detection program to complement the existing Crab Team monitoring network. This event includes a 2-hour workshop where you will learn how to identify crab molts, where and how to conduct a 20-minute Molt Search survey, how report your findings using the MyCoast mobile app, and optionally how to collect additional data on Dungeness crab molts. Sign me up! If you are interested in getting involved…
Find out more »Molt Search Volunteer Training (Clallam County)
Washington Sea Grant and Washington State University Extension have teamed up to launch a new volunteer-based early detection program to complement the existing Crab Team monitoring network. This event includes a 2-hour workshop where you will learn how to identify crab molts, where and how to conduct a 20-minute Molt Search survey, how report your findings using the MyCoast mobile app, and optionally how to collect additional data on Dungeness crab molts. Sign me up! If you are interested in getting…
Find out more »Author Talk: Heaven on the Half Shell
Join the Orca Books Co-op with authors David George Gordon and MaryAnn Barron Wagner with a new edition of their book HEAVEN ON THE HALF SHELL: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest There will be a short reading/presentation, a Q&A and some time to chat and a signing! For more information, email noraa@orcabooks.com Heaven on the Half Shell, a new book published by the University of Washington Press in partnership with Washington Sea Grant, is a thoroughly…
Find out more »August 2023
Molt Search Volunteer Training (Zoom)
Past Molt Search training in action (credit: Jess Newley) Get involved in inland Washington's invasive European green crab detection and juvenile Dungeness crab data gathering with "Molt Search", a new community science project by Washington Sea Grant's Crab Team and Washington State University Extension. You'll leave this 2-hour virtual training, offered via Zoom, knowledgable on the status of European green crab in Washington and what you can do about it. We'll cover specifics on how to identify crab molts, how…
Find out more »Molt Search Molt Blitz (Jefferson County)
Past Molt Search training in action (credit: Jess Newley) Are you a beachwalker? A shell collector? Keep an eye out for invasive green crabs while you do by participating in “Molt Search“, a new early detection community science program by Washington Sea Grant & WSU Extension designed to help managers direct resources to undersearched or green crab detected beaches. It’s a systematic beach walk, where you spend 20 person-minutes collecting and identifying all crab molts you find and submit that…
Find out more »CANCELLED: Aug 31 WSG Seaweed Office Hours
Rescheduled to Weds, Aug 30, 8-9am Link: https://wsg.washington.edu/event/wsg-seaweed-office-hours-13/
Find out more »September 2023
Heaven on the Half Shell – Coos Bay, OR
A former science writer for Washington Sea Grant in Seattle, David George Gordon is a co-author of Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest, revised and updated by University of Washington Press. He has written 22 books on topics ranging from slugs and snails to cockroaches, sharks, gray whales and the Sasquatch. As author of The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook, he has appeared on The Late, Late Show with James Corden, Late Night With Conan…
Find out more »Molt Search Molt Blitz (Whatcom County)
Past Molt Search training in action (credit: Jess Newley) Are you a beachwalker? A shell collector? Keep an eye out for invasive green crabs while you do by participating in “Molt Search“, a new early detection community science program by Washington Sea Grant & WSU Extension designed to help managers direct resources to undersearched or green crab detected beaches. It’s a systematic beach walk, where you spend 20 person-minutes collecting and identifying all crab molts you find and submit that…
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