First Aid at Sea Workshop
Washington Sea Grant and the Port of Seattle’s Fishermen’s Terminal are cosponsoring a hands-on First Aid at Sea workshops in the Nordby Room, Nordby Bldg, Fishermen’s Terminal in Seattle.
These Coast Guard-approved courses for commercial fishermen and recreational boaters cover CPR, patient...
Fine-scale Monitoring of Puget Sound Ecosystems Using Benthic Foraminifera
FORAMINIFERA MONITORING IN PUGET SOUND II
Fine-scale Monitoring of Puget Sound Ecosystems Using Benthic Foraminifera
Continuing an ongoing project, researchers are developing a tool for monitoring Puget Sound’s health using benthic foraminifera.
Principal Investigator
Eliz...
Sustainability and RainWise! Webinar
With every storm, rain carries pollutants off our roofs, driveways and other hard surfaces to local creeks, Lake Washington and Puget Sound. Rain gardens and cisterns can help control this stormwater, but we need your help! In selected areas of Seattle, the City of Seattle and King County will pay u...
Well Education and Testing
WET invites you to take a look at the health of your well and learn about keeping your drinking water safe. Washington State Department of Health recommends annual testing of individual wells for fecal coliform bacteria; testing your water is the best solution to identify possible contamination. WET...
CANCELLED: Bainbridge Island Birding Field Trip
Join naturalist George Gerdts aboard the “Admiral Pete” as he narrates a fascinating wildlife tour around Bainbridge Island. Expect to see an array of sea ducks, cormorants, alcids, rocky-shore sandpipers, Bald Eagles, marine mammals, and perhaps some early-spring migrants, not to leave ...
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SHELLFISH AND CULTIVATION
Razor clams and eastern softshell clams abundant in Willapa Bay at Sealand, south of Oysterville (Jones 1894). 80 barrels of eastern oysters from New York, New Jersey, and Chesapeake Bay moved to Bay Center (Smith, 1895), specifically Palix Channel, over approximately 5...
COHORT May Workshop Series
Sea to Soil: Building Resilience for a Healthy Island. COHORT Workshop
Join WSU Extension, VashonBePrepared, and Vashon Nature Center for an event sponsored by the Coastal Hazards Organizational Resilience Team (COHORT). This series of workshops designed to help Island residents build climate resil...
CANCELLED: Protection Island Sunset Birding Cruise
Join naturalist/birder George Gerdts for an exciting sunset cruise to Protection Island, a 400 acre National Wildlife Refuge off of Discovery Bay. Over 70% of the marine birds which nest in Puget Sound make Protection Island their breeding ground. Tufted Puffins and marine mammals are usually seen. ...
WSG News
WSG News
From drifters to drivers: How moon jellyfish are reshaping marine ecosystems
A WSG-funded project unravels how moon jellyfish aggregations are causing ecosystem-wide impacts in Puget Sound
July 14, 2025
Seattle, WA – Moon jellyfish blooms are a stunning sight to se...
Friday Harbor Laboratories Open House
Meet scientists and students at the Labs and check out the research and teaching facilities. Saturday, May 16, 2015, 11am to 4pm.
Cost. Free.
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New pumpout facility serves recreational boaters in the San Juan Islands
August 1, 2019
Facility funded by State Parks’ Clean Vessel Act program
Left from right: Owners Terri and Steve Mason and employees Nick Burne and Jonathan Hogue stand by the new pompous facility at the Shaw Island General Store.
OLYMPIA – A new sewage pumpout for recreational boaters is now ...
Well Education and Testing
Keep Your Well Well in 2015
WET invites you to take a look at the health of your well and learn about keeping your drinking water safe. WET provides homeowners with a local, inexpensive way to test their well water, as well as rivers, reservoirs, and swimming pools. Note: In addition to June, you c...
Well Education and Testing
Keep Your Well Well in 2015
WET invites you to take a look at the health of your well and learn about keeping your drinking water safe. WET provides homeowners with a local, inexpensive way to test their well water, as well as rivers, reservoirs, and swimming pools.
Cost: $20 per test for coliform
F...
2016 Washington Sea Grant-Funded Projects
December, 2016
Shoreline armoring removal: synthesis and assessment of restoration effectiveness in Puget Sound
Jeffrey Cordell, Jason Toft and Emily Howe, UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; Megan Dethier, UW Friday Harbor Laboratories
Local officials, state resource managers and conscientio...