Data, Climate Change and Design Workshop
How can we use the rapidly increasing available data and data analytics to create better urban design and policies to address climate change? Six panelists will share their experience and exchange views on how new data and data tools can advance the action of cities to mitigate and adapt to clima...
27th Conference for Shellfish Growers Agenda
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 ...
Environmental DNA (Part 3): Reconciling eDNA with Traditional Detection Methods
March 30, 2022
This is the third in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA) for use in early detection and management of European green crab. The first posts provided an introduction to eDNA and the benefits and challenges it offers to invasion managers.
In devel...
Launching Collaborative Green Crab Management in Drayton Harbor (part 1)
July 2, 2020
Removal of European green crab in Drayton Harbor is now underway, thanks to the collaborative efforts of WSG, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the Northwest Straits Commission (NWSC) and many other partners and stakeholders. This is the first of two posts on efforts to...
Director’s Note: Hui Malama Loko l’a Indigenous Aquaculture Gathering
February 20, 2020
Russell Callender, WSG Director
Over 125 guests — including representatives from 13 Pacific Northwest tribal nations; students and leaders from Northwest Indian College; and many more Indigenous stewards from across the globe — gathered at the Kākoʻo ...
Sustainable Seafood Series: Masala Butterfish
August 9, 2022
By Olivia Horwedel, WSG Science Communications Fellow
This week, we are cooking a masala butterfish recipe from Seattle-based chef, Kausar Ahmed. Ahmed is the author of the award-winning cookbook, The Karachi Kitchen. This recipe not only showcases brilliant flavors from Pakis...
Green Crab Trapping Resumes in the Salish Sea
May 13, 2019
The return of spring means trapping season for green crab is now under way. In April, WSG Crab Team resumed early detection trapping across the monitoring network along Washington’s inland shorelines. We’re pleased to share that Crab Team has received funding to continue thi...
Volunteer Voices: The Discovery of a European Green Crab on San Juan Island
October 18, 2016
You’ve heard a lot from us about sightings of the European green crabs that have occurred over the past two months. But we thought you would enjoy hearing about the experience of the first discovery from the Crab Team volunteers who made it. Craig Staude captains the group of ...
Northwest Climate Conference – Abstracts Due
Abstracts due Monday, June 12!
The NW Climate Conference annually brings together more than 300 researchers and practitioners from around the region to discuss scientific findings, challenges, and solutions related to the impacts of climate on people, natural resources, and infrastructure in ...
Hanging by a Thread
Biologist Emily Carrington probes the secrets of the humble mussel’s powerful attachment, and how mussels will fare as sea chemistry changes
By Elizabeth Cooney, WSG Communications Fellow, Washington Sea Grant
The unassuming but commercially valuable mussel dominates temperate seas worldwide, cli...
Unique Washington
Our Unique Northwest
Washingtonians have a deep, passionate relationship with their state’s rich coastal ecology and matchless marine resources. Geology, climate, ocean currents, biological evolution, human history, and social adaptation converge to create a physical, cultural, and economic s...
Crab Team at the Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
May 31, 2022
The second all-virtual Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (April 26-28) offered everyone with an interest or involvement in the inland waters shared by Washington and British Columbia the chance to connect over a huge range of topics, impacts of last summer’s heat dome, southern resi...
Field Notes and More News
Field Notes and More News
Dean Lisa Gramulich congratulates WSG’s Teri King.
WSG social scientist Melissa Poe has wrapped up an 18-month project, funded by the Puget Sound Institute and U.S. EPA, on the relationship between sense of place and the restoration of Puget Sound. Working with ...