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Nasty HABits Featured in Spring Issue of Sea Star
March 10, 2015
New, increasingly toxic algal blooms are infesting Washington’s waters.
Read about current research and innovative strategies for taking the harm out of harmful algal blooms and catch up on the latest WSG news in the spring issue of Sea Star.
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New Staff: WSG Welcomes Andrea Chateaubriand and Sam Cheplick
February 28, 2022
We are thrilled to welcome two new staff to the team: Andrea Chateaubriand and Sam Cheplick.
Andrea joined WSG in December 2021 as the executive assistant. In this role, she collaborates with the WSG director and leadership team and plays an integral role in managing events, projec...
Reimagining Our Future Shorelines
From the winter 2020–2021 Sea Star print newsletter
The Washington Coastal Resilience Project will continue to help communities prepare for shoreline hazards for years to come
By MaryAnn Wagner, WSG Assistant Director for Communications
Owen Beach, located in Point Defiance Park, is a popular a...
Crab Team and COVID-19
March 31, 2020
March and April are typically the busiest months on the Crab Team annual calendar, as staff and volunteers reunite for training workshops to relaunch the monitoring season. This spring, however, the Crab Team office has been almost entirely empty over the past month. The leadership o...
New Study: How to Save a Seabird
In the 1990s, the endangered status of the short-tailed albatross catalyzed efforts to reduce the number of birds accidentally killed as bycatch in Alaska, home to the country’s biggest fisheries. Marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin, at Washington Sea Grant at the University of Washington, and re...
Washington Sea Grant Receives $1.1 Million in Federal Funding for Aquaculture Research
November 3, 2017
Read in UW News
Aquaculture has been a mainstay of Washington’s economy since the state’s founding, and there is still potential for more growth. Three federal grants announced this week will provide total funding of $1.1 million to Washington Sea Grant, based at the University ...
Director’s Note: The Pull of King Tides
January 16, 2020
Russell Callender, WSG Director
Every winter, the Earth, sun and moon align to create fascinating coastal events: king tides. While ordinary tides are caused by the gravitational forces between Earth and the moon, when that gravitational pull is exacerbated b...
Salmon may lose the ability to smell danger as carbon emissions rise
December 18, 2018
The ability to smell is critical for salmon. They depend on scent to avoid predators, sniff out prey and find their way home at the end of their lives when they return to the streams where they hatched to spawn and die.
New research from the University of Washington and NOAA Fishe...
Using lasers to deter birds
July 26, 2018
In 2016, Washington Sea Grant marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin published a study on whether laser light can prevent seabird bycatch in North Pacific fisheries. Since then, Melvin has encouraged and supported researchers at Purdue Universtiy to study the risk of injuries to birds w...
New staff: WSG welcomes Alison Lorenz
November 28, 2023
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to welcome Alison Lorenz as a new science writer.
In this role, Alison creates and proofs flyers, blog posts, news releases, reports, and more to keep the public connected to WSG’s work across its program areas. She also supports WSG’s med...
Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Anticipate and Adapt to Ocean Change
April 1, 2018
Read in UW News
The productive ocean off Washington state’s Olympic Coast supports an abundant web of life including kelp forests, fish, shellfish, seabirds and marine mammals. The harvest and use of these treaty-protected marine resources have been central to the local tribes’ liv...
Fishing for the Triple Bottom Line: Profit, Planet — And People
October 17, 2019
A school of Pacific herring.
Fisheries managers typically strive to strike a delicate balance between two, often competing, types of needs: the needs for fishermen’s profits and the needs for the planet. But in 1994, entrepreneur John Elkington posited that true sustainability req...
European green crab’s reach stretches across North Olympic Peninsula
October 3, 2018
A new story in the Sequim Gazette featuring WSG aquatic invasive species specialist Emily Grason details how far invasive European green crab have spread on the Olympic Peninsula.
Read the story here: http://www.sequimgazette.com/news/european-green-crabs-reach-stretches-across-nort...