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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. ...
• How the Elwha Dam Removals Changed the River’s Mouth
  January 18, 2018 Read in UW News For decades, resource managers agreed that removing the two dams on the Elwha River would be a big win for the watershed as a whole and, in particular, for its anadromous trout and salmon. The dams sat on the river for more than 100 years, trapping approximately 30 m...
• 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...
• Shoreline restoration: community science to monitor effectiveness
  July 10, 2023 Read on UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences News. Jason Toft surveying for beach wrack. Photo courtesy of Jason Toft. Jason Toft from the UW Wetland Ecosystem Team has been monitoring shoreline armor restoration in Puget Sound for over a decade at sites where artificial armor ...
• Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Riley Starks, fisherman and co-founder of the Salish Center
  June 3, 2024 By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer Riley Starks with chef and restauranteur Renee Erickson. Photo courtesy of Riley Starks. Riley Starks had never fished a day in his life and had rarely been on the water when he graduated college in 1972. But he had a whole year ahead of him before h...
• 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...
• 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...
• WSG Director update: Our federal funding status
  April 14, 2025 Dear Partners and Friends of Washington Sea Grant: One month ago, I shared an update highlighting the benefits that Washington Sea Grant (WSG) continues to bring to Washington state. Since writing that update, WSG underwent a 6-year programmatic review and passed with flying ...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...