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March 2019
Crab Team New Volunteer Training – Port Townsend
Interested in becoming a Crab Team volunteer monitor to help protect pocket estuaries in Washington's Salish Sea? This full-day training workshop will fully equip you to join Crab Team's "Boots in the Mud" – no prior experience necessary. The workshop will include: An introduction to pocket estuaries and the invasion threat from European green crab; Learning and practicing the monitoring protocols; Identification of pocket estuary animals; More information: This year, Crab Team is recruiting a limited number of new volunteers to add to existing sites/teams, so…
Find out more »May 2019
The Environmental Cost of Dinner
C-CAN Ocean Acidification Roundtable Discussion Presented by Dr. Ray Hilborn, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington. This webinar will be hosted by Brad Warren, Global Ocean Health, National Fisheries Conservation Center and Teri King, Washington Sea Grant. Abstract: All food production has environmental costs -- these include greenhouse gasses, energy used, water used, nutrients released into the environment, land transformed from native habitat to farms, soil erosion etc. In this webinar Dr. Hilborn will give an overview of what we…
Find out more »July 2019
Savvy Septic Workshop
Snohomish County is offering FREE Septic Care Workshops for homeowners in July! Registration is required to attend a workshop, so please register here or by phone at 425-388-3636.
Find out more »Savvy Septic Workshop
Snohomish County is offering FREE Septic Care Workshops for homeowners in July! Registration is required to attend a workshop, so please register here or by phone at 425-388-3636.
Find out more »Floodplains by Design: Addressing flood hazards and restoring habitat
SHORELINE AND COASTAL PLANNERS GROUP SUMMER MEETING 2019 SOLD OUT! Please contact Nicole Faghin to be added to the waitlist: faghin@uw.edu. Floodplains by Design is an ambitious public-private partnership to reduce flood risks and restore habitat in the state’s major river corridors. The goal is to improve the resiliency of floodplains while protecting human communities and ecosystem health. Please join us in Renton to learn about this partnership between The Nature Conservancy, Department of Ecology and Puget Sound Partnership. We’ll hear…
Find out more »August 2019
Webinar: Understanding Acidification Risks Across Habitats Through a 10-site Intertidal Network
Join us for our C-CAN Roundtable discussion Presented by Dr. Micah Horwith, Washington Department of Natural Resources and hosted by Teri King, Washington Sea Grant. Abstract: In 2015, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources established the Acidification Nearshore Monitoring Network. This program – ANeMoNe – collects co-located data on water quality, shellfish, and aquatic vegetation at 10 intertidal sites that span greater Puget Sound and the Washington Coast. ANeMoNe is designed to support hypothesis-driven research through replicated field experiments,…
Find out more »September 2019
We’ve Got Chemistry! Leveraging Partnerships and the Ocean Acidification Information Exchange to Advance Ocean Acidification and MPA Science
Join us Wednesday, September 25 at 1 pm US EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm UTC for a webinar on We’ve Got Chemistry! Leveraging Partnerships and the Ocean Acidification Information Exchange to Advance Ocean Acidification and MPA Science. Presented by: Julianna Mullen of NERACOOS and the OAInfoExchange.org, Jenny Waddell of Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Francis Chan of Oregon State University and Meg Chadsey of Washington Sea Grant. Marine protected areas (MPAs), sanctuaries, and reserves offer refuge to a wide variety of marine species,…
Find out more »October 2019
38th Annual OysterFest
Oysters, wines, microbrews, live music and so much more come together for two days every year on the first weekend in October. Hosted by the Shelton Skookum Rotary Club Foundation and attended by thousands, OysterFest is home to the West Coast Oyster Shucking Championships and is Washington State’s official seafood festival. The festival also features hands-on water quality exhibits, and is itself a giant a food pavilion with nearly 100 unique items on the menu: BBQ oysters, fritters, spring rolls,…
Find out more »Salmon Docent Training
Want to learn more about our local salmon? Become a Salmon Docent! If you're a teacher, you can also earn clock hours through this training. If this event is sold-out, please add your name to our waitlist here: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86oERH0IOTQbsbP Salmon hold ecological, commercial, and cultural significance in the Pacific Northwest. Through this 3-part training, join regional experts to explore how our salmon survive their epic migrations and the challenges that they face in todays changing world. Attendees will engage with…
Find out more »Salmon Docent Training
Want to learn more about our local salmon? Become a Salmon Docent! If you're a teacher, you can also earn clock hours through this training. If this event is sold-out, please add your name to our waitlist here: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86oERH0IOTQbsbP Salmon hold ecological, commercial, and cultural significance in the Pacific Northwest. Through this 3-part training, join regional experts to explore how our salmon survive their epic migrations and the challenges that they face in todays changing world. Attendees will engage with…
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