Planet Ocean Teaches Middle Grade Readers How to Speak Up For The Sea
March 31, 2021
We are thrilled to announce the release of Planet Ocean, a nonfiction book for middle-grade readers (ages 8 and up) written with an underwater perspective about how climate change and pollution affect the sustainability of our sea. In addition to some cool science, Planet Ocean re...
Cool Critters: Opalescent Squid
June 25, 2021
Welcome to our Cool Critters series, where Marine Ecologist Jeff Adams shares the unique features of his favorite animals native to the Pacific Northwest. To wrap up Cephalopod Week, today’s Cool Critter is the Opalescent Squid!
The opalescent or market squid (Doryteuthis opalescen...
2020 Volume 1
2020 Volume 1
Committed Crabbers
November, 2020
This year was already poised to be exceptionally busy for WSG Crab Team and the management of the European green crab invasion in Washington – even before we were faced with a global pandemic. Through la...
50th anniversary campaign recognized by Sea Grant awards program
November 28, 2022
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is thrilled to be recognized by the 2022 Sea Grant Excellence in Communication Awards in the online/social media category around the program’s 50th anniversary celebration. This communications campaign included many components, such as a story map,...
Debris from Shellfish Aquaculture Finds New Life as Crab Gauges
From the Autumn 2022 Sea Star
Washington Sea Grant supported an innovative pilot project repurposing marine debris, transforming it into a useful tool for recreational crabbers
By Benjamin Haagen, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Aaron Barnett of WSG, center, with a team from Western Washington Uni...
Digital Cocktails & Fishtales – Celebrate What’s Good in the World
Harbor WildWatch will be wrapping up the 2021 Cocktails & Fishtales season with a photographic experience sharing, “Celebrate What’s Good in the World”. Alan Bauer Photography specializes in covering the natural history of the great Pacific Northwest.
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Looking Back on 50 Years: WSG Safety Training
May 14, 2021
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Washington Sea Grant, we’re digging through our photo archive to share moments from our program’s history throughout the coming year. Here is a photo from 1979 of one of WSG’s marine safety and first aid trainings, where the participants ...
Marine Parasites on the Rise
The abundance of a type of worm commonly found in sushi has dramatically increased
From the winter 2020–2021 Sea Star print newsletter
From warming to acidification and sea level rise, the world’s oceans have undergone a frightening amount of change over the past few decades. In a recen...
Autumn 2022 Sea Star
September 15, 2022
Our biannual magazine, now with an updated and expanded format
Catch up on Washington Sea Grant’s recent research, outreach and education programs across the state through Sea Star, our biannual magazine.
We are excited to share that with autumn 2022 issue, we are lau...
In the Nick of time? An early detection and rapid assessment in Hood Canal
June 8, 2022
The amazing volunteers who make up Washington Sea Grant’s Crab Team have done it again, detecting a basketful of green crabs before they became a truckload. Part of what makes this event particularly significant is that it’s in Hood Canal, a basin of the Salish Sea where green crabs...
Pointing the Data Toward Prosperity
How the WSG Economic Dashboard helps coastal communities grow and flourish
From the winter 2020–2021 Sea Star print newsletter
By Brandon McWilliams, WSG Science Communications Fellow
While the population size of Grays Harbor County has remained remarkably stable over the past seven years...
Advisory Committee
Advisory Committee
The WSG Advisory Committee provides general program oversight, direction, and advice. The Committee was first established in August 2006 with stakeholders and federal and state partners. The Committee was restructured in 2022 to better reflect the diverse stakehold...
Washington Coast Shellfish Aquaculture Study
Washington Coast Shellfish Aquaculture Study
Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor are known for their ecological integrity, habitat values and water quality despite historic alterations to the bays and their watersheds. They are tremendously important to the conservation of fish, shorebirds a...
National Seafood Month: Grilled Caribbean Crab Cakes
October 25, 2021
By Lucia Davids, WSG Student Assistant
As we wrap up this last week of National Seafood Month, we are sharing a recipe for grilled Caribbean crab cakes, a delicious dish that doesn’t take too long to make. Blue crab is fairly sustainable depending on its origin and could be ...