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September 2016
International Coastal Cleanup Day
Ocean Conservancy Celebrates International Coastal Cleanup Day Cleanups will be conducted at the following locations in Puget Sound in partnership with Puget Soundkeeper: Seattle – Alki Beach Seattle – Centennial and Myrtle Edwards Park Seattle – Golden Gardens Renton – Gene Coulon Park Burien – Seahurst Park Tacoma – Point Defiance Marina Bainbridge Island – multiple locations More details to be posted soon on the event page. Email Kathryn with questions or to add a cleanup to the list near…
Find out more »Health Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Technologies
The University of Washington Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) will be hosting a conference on the health benefits of climate change mitigation policies and technologies. The overarching goal of the conference is to promote vigorous uptake of health benefits research in policies and planning and to highlight policy choices that have the greatest mitigation and health impact potential. Conference attendees will include leading scientists from around the world. Discussions will consider the status efforts to model health…
Find out more »South Sound Science Symposium
The symposium brings together scientists working in the South Puget Sound ecosystem, including the watersheds that surround the marine waters. The Symposium is open to a wide variety of topics that address the following questions: What is the emerging science to help inform recovery, restoration or protection efforts? What are the trends, what is the status and what does this tell us about the ecosystem condition? Potential topics for symposium sessions and posters: 2015 Drought The ocean’s warm water blob…
Find out more »Eyes on the Beach, Boots in the Mud: South Sound Symposium
Attend a poster presentation by the Washington Sea Grant Crab Team at the South Sound Science Symposium. Symposium registration is $20 for students and $40 for regular registrants. More information on the SSSS Website. Abstract: Because of a recent range expansion, the European green crab (Carcinus maenas) presents an invasion risk to Washington’s inland shorelines. The global invader established in coastal embayments like Willapa Bay in 1998, but numbers subsequently dwindled owing to poor local reproductive success. In 2012, Canadian wildlife officials discovered…
Find out more »Searching for European Green Crab: Camano Sound Water Stewards
Photo: Emily Grason Jeff Adams will be presenting information on the European green crab monitoring at a public meeting of the Camano Sound Water Stewards. Be part of the Crab Team! The Crab Team was created in response to a Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) mandate to monitor for European green crabs along inland Washington shorelines. By using citizen science, we are achieving a much greater scale of monitoring than would otherwise be possible, and expanding what we know about the community of organisms that live in salt marshes…
Find out more »Bellingham SeaFeast: Fisher Poets in Bellingham
Bellingham SeaFeast showcases and celebrates our rich maritime heritage, thriving working waterfront, commercial fishing and seafood industries, and the culinary bounty of our corner of the Pacific Northwest. The inaugural Bellingham SeaFeast begins with a special first-time event, sponsored by Washington Sea Grant: FisherPoets-in-Bellingham Friday, Sept. 30, 1pm – 9pm Stroll through downtown Bellingham and listen to old salts and other local fishers read poems, stories and sing sea shanties and songs in the 1st Annual FisherPoets-in-Bellingham. In this take-off on the…
Find out more »Kids’ Day at OysterFest
Kids' Day is a special OysterFest preview which features an array of hands-on activities, including touch tanks, designed to help kids explore and explain the natural resource wonders of Mason County. Kids' Day activities and exhibits are designed to help kids learn about our local waters, what lives in them, how to keep them clean and how to be safe in and around the water. This event is co-hosted by Washington Sea Grant and Shelton Skookum Rotary Club in partnership with many…
Find out more »2016 – 2017 Fellowship Orientation
We are delighted to welcome the 2016 Marc Hershman Marine Policy Fellows, 2017 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, and 2016 SG/NOAA Fisheries Fellow. This orientation day serves to introduce those of you who are not familiar with the national and state Sea Grant program supporting your fellowship, meet the WSG staff with whom you will be working during your fellowship, and to ask questions about logistics such as payroll and travel policies. In addition, we'll collect any paperwork…
Find out more »October 2016
Crab Catch Reports Due
Crabbers can submit summer catch record cards to WDFW by mail at CRC Unit, 600 Capitol Way N., Olympia, WA 98501-1091. They can also report their catch online at http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/crab/ from Sept. 6 through Oct. 1.
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