Kids’ Day at OysterFest
WSG’s Marine Water Quality Specialist, Teri King, organizes and leads a full day with area 4th grade-children, teaching the students tools for daily living to improve water quality, protect the environment and practice personal safety. This event is part of the annual Oysterfest event.
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Seafood Training for Meatcutters
Sarah Fisken, Marine Operations Specialist and Teri King, Marine Water Quality Specialist
Many customers wonder whether the fish they eat are clean, healthy, high-quality, and sustainably caught. Often they direct these questions to workers behind sup...
Coastal hazard planning: the role of governance in community resilience
Hazard mitigation for coastal infrastructure
Coastal Hazard Planning: The Role of Governance in Community Resilience
Researchers examined legal and policy factors affecting a coastal community’s ability to move vital infrastructure out of the way of tsunamis and other natural hazards....
Welcome To Our New Fisheries Specialist
August 19, 2020
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to welcome Brandii Holmdahl as our new fisheries specialist.
In her new position, Brandii will focus on developing and coordinating strategies that advance the safety, economic success and environmental sustainability of Washington’s fisherie...
Harmful Algal Blooms
Harmful Algal Blooms
Several species of single-celled algae growing in Washington produce potent toxins that can poison marine animals or become concentrated in shellfish and sicken, even kill, humans who eat them. Even when they don’t harm humans, toxic blooms can force costly shutdowns ...
Webinar: Understanding Acidification Risks Across Habitats Through a 10-site Intertidal Network
Join us for our C-CAN Roundtable discussion
Presented by Dr. Micah Horwith, Washington Department of Natural Resources and hosted by Teri King, Washington Sea Grant.
Abstract:
In 2015, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources established the Acidification Nearshore Monitoring Network. T...
Cranberry Lake Event
WSG Marine Water Quality Specialist Teri King and Aquaculture Outreach Specialist Jen Runyan host the annual Cranberry Lake Link’d Up event talking about water quality to school-age children.
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SEA Discovery Center Summer Lecture
Join us on Wednesday evenings this summer for Summer Lectures at SEA. Each week, guest experts will speak in-person about issues and research investigations relevant to the marine environment in the Puget Sound and greater Salish Sea. With topics ranging from the history of water quality in Liberty...
Kids’ Day
Kids’ Day at OysterFest
For over 25 years, Kids’ Day at OysterFest has provided students a unique, fun opportunity to learn about the world they live in and how to protect and care for the environment and themselves.
Each year, up to 500 fourth grade students in Mason County have participate...
Sarah Fisken
Sarah Fisken
Marine Operations Specialist
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Expertise
Commercial fisheries
Seafood marketing and quality
Vessel safety
Sarah came to WSG in 1982 from commercial fishing, a background that helps immensely in her work to improve safety and operations on the water. Starti...
Building Citizen Science With Volunteers As Partners: Part 1
2015 was a pilot year for Crab Team monitoring. Here, in a series of two posts, Natalie White, an undergraduate in the UW Program on the Environment Capstone Program, will share the work she did to understand the volunteer experience during our pilot year. In a third post, we’ll fill you in on...
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 ...