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...
Engagement Code of Conduct
Engagement Code of Conduct
Purpose
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) has established this Code of Conduct (Code) to guide the behavior of everyone attending, using, or participating in WSG programs and resources, whether in-person or virtual. This Code also outlines our response to behavio...
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...
Kitsap Salmon Tours
Celebrate the return of salmon to Kitsap Stream! There will be tours at several streams around the peninsula. For more information and to schedule group tours, visit www.kitsapsalmontours.org. The event is organized by Washington State University Extension.
Program Contact: Renee Johnson, Water St...
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...
Celebrate the Olympic Coast with a Beach Clean-up, Barbecue and Movie Night
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March 14, 2019
CONTACTS: Ian Miller, 360-417-6460 or immiller@uw.edu
MaryAnn Wagner, 206-616-6353 or maryannb@uw.edu
Celebrate the Olympic Coast with a Beach Clean-up, Barbecue and Movie Night
On April 20, the Washington Coast Clean-up and 6th Annual River & Ocean ...
“Oceanography” special issue spotlights Sea Grant
May 8, 2024
Sea Grant-funded research and work with coastal and Great Lakes communities across the nation are the focus of a special issue of “Oceanography,” the official journal of The Oceanography Society.
This special issue, published in April 2024, features 36 articles contributed by Sea Gr...
Blue Futures: WSG funds collaborative research projects with the Makah Tribe
From the Summer 2023 Sea Star
By incorporating people, culture and Indigenous knowledge systems, these three projects model the use of interdisciplinary approaches to inform marine resource management
By Olivia Horwedel, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Photo: Matt McIntosh/NOAA
Deep blue ocean wat...
TALK: WDOT Research & Innovative Solutions To Stormwater
Talk: “WDOT Stormwater Pollution; Research & Innovative Solutions” with Brandon Slone Stormwater Monitoring and Research Analyst and
Nathan Nadenicek Stormwater Monitoring Specialist
WA Department of Transporation.
Join us for an introduction to Washington States Stormwater Monitorin...
Oyster Night at University Book Store
University Book Store presents the authors of Heaven on the Half Shell—an immersive, fully illustrated history of Northwest oysters. Explore oysters’ role in ecosystems and human societies–and learn stellar seafood recipes from regional chefs!
REGISTER HERE:
https://www.ubookstore.com/events?i...
Monitoring the Damage in the Heat Wave’s Wake
From the Autumn 2022 Sea Star
Washington Sea Grant rapidly provided funding to two projects to survey the impacts of the historic June 2021 heat wave on intertidal marine life
By Samantha Larson, WSG Science Writer
Joe Williams, front, and Darrell Williams with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community...
Washington’s Clean Marina Program celebrates Leschi and Lakewood Marinas’ Clean Marina certification
July 15, 2024
Dwight Jones (left), CEO, and Andrew Shroyer, general manager, of Lakewood and Leschi marinas
The Northwest Marine Trade Association (NMTA), Washington Sea Grant and others today announced the certification of Leschi and Lakewood Marinas, managed by Marina Management LLC, as Clean Mari...
Remembering Bob Goodwin
July 17, 2024
Goodwin contributed to Washington Sea Grant through various roles for nearly 50 years
We are sad to share the news of the passing of former Washington Sea Grant (WSG) staff member Bob Goodwin. Goodwin died on May 3, 2024 at his home in Wenatchee, Washington, after a year of fighting ca...