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Crab Team and COVID-19
March 31, 2020
March and April are typically the busiest months on the Crab Team annual calendar, as staff and volunteers reunite for training workshops to relaunch the monitoring season. This spring, however, the Crab Team office has been almost entirely empty over the past month. The leadership o...
Reimagining Our Future Shorelines
From the winter 2020–2021 Sea Star print newsletter
The Washington Coastal Resilience Project will continue to help communities prepare for shoreline hazards for years to come
By MaryAnn Wagner, WSG Assistant Director for Communications
Owen Beach, located in Point Defiance Park, is a popular a...
Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Anticipate and Adapt to Ocean Change
April 1, 2018
Read in UW News
The productive ocean off Washington state’s Olympic Coast supports an abundant web of life including kelp forests, fish, shellfish, seabirds and marine mammals. The harvest and use of these treaty-protected marine resources have been central to the local tribes’ liv...
Sea-level rise report will help urban planners
August 9, 2018
A sea-level rise report led by Washington Sea Grant and the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group provides the clearest picture yet of what to expect in sea-level rise along Washington State coastlines.
Coverage in the Tacoma Weekly News recognizes that the informatio...
Invasive green crabs poised to move to South Sound
King5 News covered the spread of invasive European green crab in a recent article.
“Since the first spotting in 2016, green crab have now been located at seven different sites. McDonald and others are worried that the crabs will get more challenging to remove if they’re able to make it t...
Shoreline restoration: community science to monitor effectiveness
July 10, 2023
Read on UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences News.
Jason Toft surveying for beach wrack. Photo courtesy of Jason Toft.
Jason Toft from the UW Wetland Ecosystem Team has been monitoring shoreline armor restoration in Puget Sound for over a decade at sites where artificial armor ...
European green crab found at Kala Point Lagoon
September 19, 2018
Earlier this month, WSG Crab Team found invasive European green crab at Kala Point Lagoon in Port Townsend. Read more about the discovery and its implications in the article below, from The Port Townsend Leader. A big thanks to the hardworking Crab Team volunteers who ha...
New pumpout facility serves recreational boaters in the San Juan Islands
August 1, 2019
Facility funded by State Parks’ Clean Vessel Act program
Left from right: Owners Terri and Steve Mason and employees Nick Burne and Jonathan Hogue stand by the new pompous facility at the Shaw Island General Store.
OLYMPIA – A new sewage pumpout for recreational boaters is now ...
Russell Callender Nominated for NOAA Distinguished Career Award
May 2, 2019
Congratulations to WSG Director Russell Callender for his nomination to the NOAA Distinguished Career Award for Professional Achievement. The award recognizes significant accomplishments that have resulted in long-term benefits to the bureau’s mission and strategic goals.
Dr. Callender...
The Wave of the Future: Marine Renewable Energy
NEWS RELEASE
August 8, 2017
CONTACT: Meg Chadsey, Washington Sea Grant, mchadsey@uw.edu, 206-616-1538
The Wave of the Future: Marine Renewable Energy
Washington Sea Grant Marine Renewable Energy Seminar Series
Tuesday, Aug. 15th, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. in For...
WSG and WDFW Expand Green Crab Trapping on the Washington Coast
August 30, 2020
In 2016, when invasive European green crabs were first found on San Juan Island, media coverage left a lot of folks on Washington’s coast scratching their heads. Why the sudden concern? After all, green crabs were first detected in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor several decades ago, ...
Eyes on the Beach, Boots in the Mud: South Sound Symposium
Attend a poster presentation by the Washington Sea Grant Crab Team at the South Sound Science Symposium. Symposium registration is $20 for students and $40 for regular registrants. More information on the SSSS Website.
Abstract: Because of a recent range expansion, the European green crab (Carcinus...
Melissa Poe
Melissa Poe
Assistant Director for Outreach
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise
Social and cultural dimensions of coasts, oceans and climate resilience
Indigenous and local knowledges
Subsistence practices and wild food systems
Applying anthropology, ethnoecology, political ecology, and cultural g...
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...