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June 2025
Molt Search Season Kickoff Webinar!
Curious to learn more about Molt Search? Want updates on green crab in Washington? Molt Searchers and those curious to learn more are invited to a lunch hour season kick-off webinar on June 4th. Content will span from 2025 protocol updates, green crab status/trends, and even some science being done on the Molt Search dataset. Register here to receive the Zoom link.
Find out more »Sound to Sea: Working Together to Build Resilient Coastal Communities
Mason County: Join us for a series of skill-based workshops designed to help you and your neighbors learn sustainable ways to care for the land and your communities in the face of a changing climate. Learn steps you can take towards... Improving water quality Building storm & rain gardens Planting for slope health Speakers will include Master Gardener volunteers from Mason County WSU Extension delivering education on planting for slope health and/or restoration, a presentation from WSG on water quality…
Find out more »Molt Search Public Training (San Juan County)
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 information via the MyCoast app. Learn more about the program…
Find out more »Molt Search Public Training (Virtual)
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 »Molt Search Public Training (San Juan County)
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 information via the MyCoast app. Learn more about the program…
Find out more »Molt Search Public Training (Pierce)
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 information via the MyCoast app. Learn more about the program…
Find out more »Salish Sea-wide Molt Blitz!
Molt Search is a program by Washington Sea Grant, with partnership from Washington State University Extension and many local partner organizations. By participating you can help monitor shorelines across Washington for invasive European green crabs and native Dungeness crabs by following a simple protocol: a timed collection of all molts on the shore, submitted via MyCoast. Find out more at wsg.washington.edu/moltsearch What's a Molt Blitz? The goal is to create the largest single-day dataset on molts across inland Washington. Can we…
Find out more »Molt Search Public Training (Thurston)
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 information via the MyCoast app. Learn more about the program…
Find out more »Heaven on the Half Shell Talk | Gig Harbor, WA
Heaven on the Half Shell: Washington State’s Oyster Odyssey Get to know the Pacific Northwest’s most beloved bivalve: the oyster. In this talk, author David George Gordon discusses three species— the Olympia, Eastern, and Pacific oysters— along with the people who have cultivated these delicacies for many generations. This event is hosted by the Harbor History Museum. When: June 26, 2025 6:30 pm Where: Harbor History Museum 4121 Harborview Dr. Gig Harbor, WA 98332 Read more about David and view additional talks…
Find out more »WSG Seaweed Office Hours
Drop-in office hours for all your seaweed information needs! How to participate: Zoom meeting link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96836051377?pwd=dGJWc0RuRm9ZTFArbzQ2aGFacWRBZz09 Join at any point during the one-hour window (no RSVP required) Attendees will be served in order of arrival Please stay on mute until invited to speak Initial conversations will be limited to 5 minutes until everyone’s had a chance to speak All conversations should be considered public, and may be recorded
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