Researchers to map the genome of the invasive European green crab
April 2, 2025
With state funding, Washington Sea Grant will work with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to shed light on a highly invasive species
Emily Grason, WSG Crab Team program lead, monitoring for European green crab. Mapping the genome of...
Hanging by a Thread
Biologist Emily Carrington probes the secrets of the humble mussel’s powerful attachment, and how mussels will fare as sea chemistry changes
By Elizabeth Cooney, WSG Communications Fellow, Washington Sea Grant
The unassuming but commercially valuable mussel dominates temperate seas worldwide, cli...
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...
Washington Coastal Hazards Resilience Network Lunch & Learn
Community-Driven Climate Resilience Projects Along the Lower Columbia River
Presented by Jackson Blalock, Marine & Estuarine Resilience Program Manager at Pacific Conservation District and Catherine Corbett, Chief Scientist at Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership
From 2021-24, workshops and relate...
Washington Sea Grant Tide’s Out trainings help to skill up the shellfish industry
May 1, 2025
Over a few days this winter, aspiring leaders and supervisors of farmhands, plant workers, and nursery staff from shellfish companies up and down the West Coast found themselves back in the classroom – well, at least part of the time. The rest of the time they practiced hands-on first ...
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...
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 ...
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...
2024 Green Crab Status Summary: Part 2 (Coastal Estuaries)
February 13, 2025
In this post, we’ll continue our reflections back on 2024 through the lens of the status and trends of European green crabs in Washington. In the last post, we shared observations from trapping efforts across Salish Sea shorelines. Here we shift to shorelines on Washington’s Pa...
Looking Back on 50 Years: 1990s Teachers on an Educational Wetlands Tour
August 13, 2021
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Washington Sea Grant and back-to-school month, we’re digging through our photo archive to share moments from our program’s history. Here is a photo from 1994 of teachers taking an educational wetlands tour of the UW Arboretum in Seattle, Wash...
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...
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...
Grilled Caribbean Dungeness 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. Dungeness crab is sustainable in the Pacific Northwest depending on ...