Gardening Green sustainable landscaping class
Gardening Green provides practical information and simple yet powerful actions to protect the environment and human health. This is a relaxed, fun class that incorporates presentations, demonstrations, hands-on experiences, a native plant walk, and tours of sustainable landscapes. By the end of cl...
Gardening Green sustainable landscaping class
Gardening Green provides practical information and simple yet powerful actions to protect the environment and human health. This is a relaxed, fun class that incorporates presentations, demonstrations, hands-on experiences, a native plant walk, and tours of sustainable landscapes. By the end of c...
Purse Seine Crew-Member Training Program
August 16, 2021
New Program!
Want to have an adventure in Alaska? This new program will give you the experience you need to get a commercial fishing job
The Gig Harbor BoatShop and Washington Sea Grant have partnered in developing a new Purse Seine Crew-Member Training Program. The six-day program w...
The Environmental Cost of Dinner
C-CAN Ocean Acidification Roundtable Discussion
Presented by Dr. Ray Hilborn, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington. This webinar will be hosted by Brad Warren, Global Ocean Health, National Fisheries Conservation Center and Teri King, Washington Sea Grant.
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Bellingham SeaFeast-Saturday
Bellingham SeaFeast showcases and celebrates our rich maritime heritage, thriving working waterfront, commercial fishing and seafood industries, and the culinary bounty of our corner of the Pacific Northwest.
This inaugural Bellingham SeaFeast, with FREE admission, appeals to all ages, backgrounds,...
The pulse of the ocean
UW and Smithsonian researchers develop DNA identification methods for monitoring Salish Sea planktonic communities
From the Winter 2023/2024 Sea Star
By Katalin Plummer, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Sometimes it’s the smallest living things that can tell us the most about the state of the...
European Green Crab Found in Sequim Bay
August 23, 2017
A single European green crab was captured in Sequim Bay last week by Neil Harrington, an Environmental Biologist with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Since the discovery of a small population of green crab in nearby Dungeness Bay this April, Harrington has been steadily trapping...
Washington Sea Grant in the News 2018
WSG in the News 2018
December 2018
Creation of new app allows citizens help clean up the waters of Puget Sound
The Daily Chronicle, December 31
Mobile app new tool for coastal observations
Peninsula Daily News, December 28
Ecological effects of wolf eradication to be discuessed in Jan. 8 lectur...
It’s Not Easy Seeing Green
It’s Not Easy Seeing Green
Crab, that is. Washington Sea Grant launches a concerted monitoring effort to make sure elusive, habitat-wrecking European green crab haven’t penetrated Puget Sound.
By Annie Hillier, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Don’t be fooled by th...
Gardening Green sustainable landscaping class
Gardening Green provides practical information and simple yet powerful actions to protect the environment and human health. This is a relaxed, fun class that incorporates presentations, demonstrations, hands-on experiences, a native plant walk, and tours of sustainable landscapes. By the end of cl...
A Career Saving Seabirds
From the autumn 2019 Sea Star print newsletter
Looking back on the work of marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin upon his retirement
“I’ve never had an ornithology class in my life,” Ed Melvin confides on a sunny afternoon sitting by Seattle’s Portage Bay. For anyone familiar with Me...
Trapping for European Green Crab on Whidbey Island
October 12, 2017
The crew prepares to deploy traps at Lagoon Point. L-R Crab Team Lead, Jeff Adams; Volunteers Debra Paros, Michael Anderson, Kes Tautvydas, and Charlie Seablom. (Photo: E. Grason)
Following the recent capture of a single European green crab at Lagoon Point, on Whidbey Island (read m...
Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Hazel Secor from Cape Flattery Fishermen’s Co-Op
April 29, 2022
By Benjamin Haagen, Science Communications Fellow
Hazel Secor has been working as manager of the Cape Flattery Fisherman’s Co-op in Neah Bay, Washington since 2014, supporting the local fishing industry and working with fishers to process and distribute seafood to communities aroun...
Who Will Rescue the Rescuers?
Who Will Rescue the Rescuers?
Washington Sea Grant alerts the Coast Guard’s first responders to the critical danger they will face when a tsunami strikes.
Coast Guard airmen and seamen muster to hear Ian Miller share some inconvenient truths about tsunami dangers.
It was a crisp, bright ...