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...
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 ...
Coast Guard-Approved First Aid at Sea Workshop in Seattle
Learn to effectively treat hypothermia, near drowning and other incidents while on the water.
Washington Sea Grant and Port of Seattle Fishermen’s Terminal are cosponsoring a Coast Guard-Approved First Aid at Sea workshop.
Topics covered include:
CPR
Patient assessment
Hypothermia and cold wate...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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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...
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,...
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Acidification
The oceans’ absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is causing fundamental changes in seawater chemistry. CO2 reacts with water to form carbonic acid, which makes seawater more acidic. This process, known as ocean acidification (or OA) ha...
National Marine Educators Association Conference in Bellingham
Strait to Sound: Gathering at the Salish Sea
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY • BELLINGHAM, WA
IN PERSON + ONLINE
Northwest Aquatic and Marine Educators (NAME) is excited to be the host for the National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) 2023 annual conference—a special event that brings togethe...