Savvy Septic Workshop
FREE & Online. Register today to attend either Tuesday February 1 or Wednesday February 2, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
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Snohomish County’s Savvy Septic Program is a one-stop-shop for financing options, incentives, and educa...
2023 Volume 1
2023 Volume 1
Crabbing Is A Team Sport
November, 2023
Since Washington declared an emergency related to the European green crab invasion nearly two years ago, managers and scientists have dramatically grown state capacity to understand and control green crab...
Building Citizen Science with Volunteers as Partners: Part 3
The field of citizen science has grown explosively over the last decade, benefitting from excellent PR, Presidential shout-outs, advances in big data, and, not least, a Web 2.0 world replete with hashtags, networks, and crowdsourcing. It turns out people love doing science in their spare time! The h...
Exploration of Dungeness Watershed
Take a virtual tour through the different zones of the watershed and get to know our local flora and fauna with the Dungeness River Audubon Center. This course will introduce students to some of the different challenges that our watershed faces, and will look at current restoration projects, as we...
National Invasive Species Awareness Week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week is a nationwide event occurring in the spring to raise awareness of the threat of invasive species are and what people can do to prevent their spread. Representatives from local, state, and regional organizations gather in Washington, D.C. in late February to...
The Mountain-Moving “Mosquito” of Ocean Acidification
The Mountain-Moving “Mosquito” of Ocean Acidification
Washington Sea Grant’s Meg Chadsey proves the power of one to mobilize action on a very big issue.
The Journal of Irreproducible Results once published a paper calculating how quickly the Pacific and Atlantic coasts ...
Crabber/Towboat Lane Agreement
Crabber/Towboat Lane Agreement
The towlanes were updated as of March 2025. Please download updated Data Files below.
Towlane Pt# Old LAT Old LONG New LAT New LONG
C 8-9 41° 41.250 124° 15.900 41...
WSG in the News 2020
Washington Sea Grant in the News
December 2020
What causes king tides and where to see otters in the wild in Washington
The Seattle Times, December 10
Witness King Tides and help build a picture of the future
The Wahkiakum County Eagle, December 10
Head outdoors this holiday season to witness k...
WSG receives $1.59 million to boost Puget Sound habitat
March 6, 2023
The two WSG-led projects selected for funding will focus on sea level rise vulnerability and managing invasive European green crab
Photo: Grace Marcella Norman
Two projects led by Washington Sea Grant (WSG) will receive a total of $1.59 million through the Puget Sound National Estuary ...
New video: Seaweed farming in Washington waters
February 7, 2023
Meg Chadsey, WSG carbon specialist, talks with two emerging seaweed farmers on Vashon Island who have different approaches
By Andrea Richter-Sanchez, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Kelp aquaculture has many potential benefits to society. For example, it can provide habitat for m...
Kitsap Beach Restoration Tour
You are invited to a Kitsap Beach Restoration Tour, a walking tour starting at the JA & Anna F Smith Childrens Park.
Christina Kereki will show us two shoreline restoration projects. Project Engineer Dan Nickel and Shore Friendly Project Geologist Wendy Gerstel will present on this tour.
Please ...
Three recent graduates announced as finalists for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
September 28, 2023
We are pleased to announce that three recent graduate students from universities in Washington and Idaho — Jillian Everly, Devon Lombard-Henley and Leslie (To-Nhu) Nguyen — were selected as finalists for the 2024 class of the prestigious John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship...
UW, WWU graduate student selected as 2023–2024 WSG Keystone Fellow
May 16, 2023
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to announce that University of Washington and Western Washington University graduate Jackelyn Garcia has been selected as the 2023–2024 WSG Keystone Fellow. Through the fellowship, she will spend the year working at the Puget Sound Partnership and...
WSG receives federal funding to support aquaculture initiatives
August 19, 2024
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to receive federal funding through NOAA Sea Grant to supplement its existing initiatives supporting aquaculture in Washington state. Two WSG initiatives are supported by this funding: the Willapa-Grays Harbor Estuary Collaborative and the new Tid...
Heaven on the Half Shell Talk | Virtual
Heaven on the Half Shell: Washington State’s Oyster Odyssey
Get to know the Pacific Northwest’s most beloved bivalve: the oyster. In this talk, author David George Gordon discusses three species— the Olympia, Eastern, and Pacific oysters— along with the people who have cultivated these deli...