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...
Self-Guided Field Trip: The Seattle Seawall
Self-Guided Field Trip: The Seattle Seawall
The largest habitat-friendly, urban seawall in the world.
Walking Tour: Visit Seattle’s waterfront to view the Seattle Seawall, an innovative solution to the persistent problem of habitat loss for salmon and other shoreline species in an urban sett...
Kelp Aquaculture
Kelp Aquaculture
Interest in macroalgae aquaculture is growing. Kelp and other seaweeds can be grown for food, animal feed, organic fertilizer, biofuels and other sustainable products. In Washington State, kelp aquaculture grew out of ocean acidification (OA) research. Because macroalgae ab...
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...
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 ...
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...
Environmental DNA (Part 2): A Cautionary Carp Tale
March 3, 2022
This is the second in a series of posts sharing new research on the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) in detection of green crabs. For our introduction to eDNA, check out the previous post.
Collaborator Ryan Kelly shows just how easy sample collection is for eDNA assays at a site on Vash...
Fall 2017
Fall 2017
Wrapping up a busy year
November 21st, 2017
The 2017 Crab Team sampling season has officially concluded, and We – with a capital “W”, inclusive of the whole community of Crab Team volunteers, partners, cheerleaders and staff – can b...
Is Waste From Historic Sawmills Toxic to Native Eelgrass?
Is Waste From Historic Sawmills Toxic to Native Eelgrass?
By Mackenzie Nelson
WSG Science Communications Fellow
Imagine Washington’s landscape more than 100 years before the Space Needle was built. The trees stood tall from the mountains to the coastline, lush forests that promised entrep...
Riparian Rehab Gets a Boost
Engineered log jams could be an important tool for salmon restoration
From the spring 2020 Sea Star print newsletter
By Bobbie Buzzell, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Efforts in Washington State to re-establish salmon populations and riparian habitat have been underway for quite some tim...
How Fishing at Night Can Help Save West Coast Albatross SS
How Fishing at Night Can Help Save West Coast Albatross
Longline fishing, in which long lines with baited hooks are attached at intervals behind a boat, is a common technique used to catch many high-value species including halibut, tuna and sablefish. However, those fish are sometimes caugh...
2022 Volume 1
2022 Volume 1
A Green Crab Emergency
August 17, 2022
As the long radio silence might imply, things have been busy since our last newsletter in the fall of 2021. Last winter, several emergency declarations related to green crab, including Lummi Nation, Shoalw...
Marine Life
Marine Life
Washington’s waters are home to an extraordinary community of marine plants and animals, including legendary salmon runs and three pods of resident killer whales. The world’s largest octopus, starfish, moon snail, and burrowing clam all reside in Washington. But the region...
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