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February 2021
Washington Coastal Resilience Project Webinar
NOAA's Coastal Resilience Grants are helping communities that are interested in faster and better recovery from coastal hazards. This webinar is part of a series designed to share the lessons learned from these projects. The risks associated with natural hazards in the state of Washington, including high tide flooding and eroding coastlines, are exacerbated by sea level rise. The Washington Coastal Resilience Project employed risk projection, informed planning, technical innovations, and community engagement to rapidly increase their capacity to support…
Find out more »EarthLab Lunch & Learn Series
Presented by: Lauren Brohawn, assistant director of UW Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship; Michael Pomfret, managing director of Washington Clean Energy Testbeds (run by the University of Washington Clean Energy Institute); Mel Clark, president and CEO of CleanTech Alliance Learn about the role these groups each play in the cleantech and entrepreneurial ecosystem, what collaboration looks like for their group, and best practices for collaborating across difference. Learn more about the EarthLab Lunch and Learn Series: Collaborating Across Difference. Co-sponsored by: UW Center for Global Studies,…
Find out more »The Whale Museum’s Virtual Workshop: Species in the Spotlight
The Whale Museum is holding a virtual “Species in the Spotlight” workshop in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Taking place the weekend of Feb. 10-12, the intent is to learn about the species highlighted by NOAA that are most likely going to go extinct in the near future and what on-going recovery efforts, research, and education efforts are underway to prevent their extinction. This workshop is ideal for those wishing to continue their education as a naturalist…
Find out more »NOAA Live! Webinar – It’s Not Easy Being Shelled: the Ocean Acidification Blues
The NOAA Live! Webinars are a collaboration between NOAA's Regional Collaboration Network and Woods Hole Sea Grant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Each interactive webinar features a different NOAA expert/topic and a moderated question and answers session throughout so that kids can get a peek at what our NOAA scientists do in all the various NOAA offices. These webinars are geared toward grades 2-8. Webinars are streamed via GoToWebinar, are ~45 minutes in length, have live American Sign Language…
Find out more »USGS Landslide Hazards Program (LHP) Seminar
Dr. Jonathan Warrick from the U.S. Geological Survey will be presenting, "Coastal Landslides (and other changes) Through the Lens of SfM Photogrammetry": Over the past decade, Structure-from-Motion (SfM) Photogrammetry has provided new opportunities to measure topography and topographic change in the earth sciences. USGS will present an overview of SfM developments by the USGS Remote Sensing Coastal Change project, with a focus on the coastal landslides and bluff erosion along the California central coast. New applications are allowing for the measurement of…
Find out more »March 2021
27th Conference for Shellfish Growers (Virtual)
First convened by WSG in 1991, the Conference for Shellfish Growers brings together shellfish producers, researchers, students and managers from the Pacific Northwest to discuss pressing issues and relevant research on aquaculture. We look forward to another engaging and insightful conference this year. This year, our 2-day conference will be entirely virtual. See the registration page for the agenda and to save your spot for the event. You can also view the agenda on our website here. Agenda March…
Find out more »Polydora Mud Worm Workshop
Sponsored by the Western Regional Aquaculture Center Register in advance for this meeting: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oc-iqqz8sHdwDvObjjF0- 0YPRIApzJrVT Agenda 9:00 a.m. Welcome — Chelsea Wood, University of Washington Overview of the Polydora Mud Worm Project — Chelsea Wood, University of Washington What We Have Learned from Alaska to California — Julieta Martinelli, University of Washington and Megan Considine, Oregon State University Identifying Mud Worms in Oyster Shells — Teri King, Washington Sea Grant Effective Treatments to Control Infections — Julieta Martinelli, University of…
Find out more »Coastal Café
Tune in to KPTZ 91.9 FM to join host Aaron Barnett and guest Rob Sendak with the Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission as they discuss boating safety updates. This is a joint production of Washington Sea Grant at the College of the Environment, University of Washington and KPTZ 91.9 FM. Coastal Café explores the latest in marine science with researchers, policy experts and people who live and work along our coast. To hear other segments, check out the Coastal…
Find out more »Orca Bowl
Washington State’s Ocean Knowledge Competition About Orca Bowl Each year, high school students from across Washington come together for a day of friendly competition and exciting enrichment experiences at Orca Bowl, the state’s regional National Ocean Sciences Bowl® (NOSB) event. Washington Sea Grant partners with several units within UW’s College of the Environment to offer the program. Orca Bowl challenges and recognizes Washington state’s high school students’ knowledge of the world’s oceans. During the daylong competition, hosted at the University of Washington…
Find out more »New Crab Team Volunteer Orientation (*virtual*)
This year, we're bringing on a small number of new volunteers to meet targeted needs of sites within our current 55-site network. No prior experience is necessary, but all participants must be at least 16 years old. We invite you to read about what it's like to be Boots in the Mud with Crab Team. To find out if an opportunity to join a site team might be available near you, check out this site map, which details which teams need…
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