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August 2019
What is the State of Your Oyster?
Are your oysters healthy? WSG volunteers provide landowners evaluations of bacterial contamination for privately owned beaches in Hood Canal and throughout Puget Sound at these locations: Hunter Farms 1921 E. State Route 106, Union, WA QFC parking lot, under flag pole – pharmacy side – 201 NE State Route 300, Belfair, WA For more information, see our flyer
Find out more »SEA Discovery Day – What’s in a Shell?
Bring the family to participate in some marine science fun! Discovery Days every Tuesday (through August) 10am to noon at SEA Discovery Center in Poulsbo. Each week is a different topic. $10/family
Find out more »SEA Discovery Days – Who Eats Whom: Marine Food Chains
Bring the family to participate in some marine science fun! Discovery Days every Tuesday (through August) 10am to noon at SEA Discovery Center in Poulsbo. Each week is a different topic. $10/family
Find out more »Moonlight Beach Adventure
A summer tradition! Join Edmonds Ranger Naturalists and Volunteer Beach Docents for a summer evening program at Marina Beach, featuring stories, songs, and touch tanks harboring creatures from the deep brought to shore by volunteer scuba divers from the Marker Buoy Dive Club operating a live underwater video feed. Dress warmly and bring a flashlight. Click here to view a You Tube video of the Moonlight Beach Adventure. No registration required. FREE
Find out more »SEA Discovery Days – Adaptable Fish
Bring the family to participate in some marine science fun! Discovery Days every Tuesday (through August) 10am to noon at SEA Discovery Center in Poulsbo. Each week is a different topic. $10/family
Find out more »September 2019
New Volunteer Naturalist Training
Become a volunteer naturalist with the Cedar River Salmon Journey Program, a free, fun and family-friendly salmon viewing program. Learn about our local salmon and one of the world’s amazing wildlife migrations, which runs through the heart of Seattle, Renton and on up into Maple Valley. Naturalists will receive training, then spend three shifts along the river in October, talking to the public about salmon and the Cedar River. No prior experience or knowledge is required. Youth, ages 8 and…
Find out more »Marine Science Workshop for Secondary Teachers
Do you want… …your students to participate in authentic, real-life marine science? …a curriculum unit that supports NGSS and is tailored to your needs? …to explore connections between humans and the marine ecosystem? If so, join SEA Discovery Center’s Education Coordinator Denise Kilkenny-Tittle for a 1.5 day workshop designed to immerse secondary teachers in NGSS-supported marine science field investigations and activities that engage middle and high school students in the scientific process. Youth program participants and staff must abide by…
Find out more »C-CAN Roundtable discussion: Ocean Acidification and Pseudo-nitzschia harmful algal blooms along the West Coast
Join us for our C-CAN Roundtable discussion on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 1pm PT (4pm ET) How ocean acidification works hand-in-hand with warming and other global change stressors to promote toxic Pseudo-nitzschia harmful algal blooms along the West Coast Presented by Dr. Dave Hutchins*, University of Southern California and hosted by Bruce Steele. Abstract: Toxic harmful algal blooms are an increasing problem globally, and the West Coast of the U.S. is no exception. In particular, massive neurotoxic blooms of the…
Find out more »Whale Trail speaker event: Erich Hoyt, author of “Orca: The Whale Called Killer”
Join us for this rare Seattle appearance by internationally-renowned author and marine conservationist Erich Hoyt to celebrate the newly released 5th edition of his classic book, Orca the Whale Called Killer and to learn how his efforts to protect marine mammal habitats worldwide might support the conservation of orcas in the North Pacific, including the endangered southern resident orcas. Orca: The Whale Called Killer charts Erich Hoyts adventures and conservation work which began with killer whales off the B.C. coast…
Find out more »Bellingham SeaFeast
Join for a celebration of Bellingham’s legacy maritime heritage, bustling working waterfront, internationally-renowned fishing & seafood industries, unsurpassed culinary bounty, and top-drawer regional entertainment. Plan now to stay overnight and attend (admission is free). You’ll catch the wave of excitement at our Bellingham SeaFeast – fun and folly, music and demonstrations, competitions and entertainers, and seafood, seafood, seafood – on the shores of Bellingham Bay! Washington Sea Grant is a proud sponsor of the Bellingham SeaFeast
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