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Is Waste From Historic Sawmills Toxic to Native Eelgrass?
While sawmills no longer operate on the same scale, these relics of Washington’s history are still impacting local ecosystems today, including the health of
Zostera marina, an eelgrass species native to Washington waters. Eelgrass is well known as an indicator of ecosystem health in the Salish Sea...
Shell Shocked: Exploring Ocean Acidification with EarthEcho Expeditions
Young people are today’s stakeholders and advocates for change. Using EarthEcho Expedition: Shell Shocked videos and project-based learning tools, educators can activate students’ critical thinking around this “wicked” global problem. This webinar will provide tools to embed best practices o...
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...
National Seafood Month: Grilled Lemon Parsley Cod
October 4, 2021
By Lucia Davids, WSG Student Assistant
This week for National Seafood Month, we’ll be indulging in grilled lemon parsley cod. Pacific cod in particular is a good sustainable seafood choice at the moment, especially cod certified by the Marine Stewardship Council. As a prepar...
King Tides Provide a Window into the Future of Washington Shorelines
From the autumn 2019 Sea Star print newsletter
By Andrew Chin, WSG Science Communications Fellow
On a quiet day in Oak Harbor last January, the surface of Puget Sound was as smooth as glass. The water gently reflected the winter sun as 45 pairs of eyes watched the tide slowly overtake the shoreline,...
Empathy for Conservation Conference
Seattle Aquarium invites researchers, educators, conservation advocates and zoo and aquarium professionals to join in a forward-looking exploration of how empathy can advance conservation outcomes.
This virtual, participatory conference will focus on facilitating dialogue between researchers and pra...
Streams of Thought Film Festival
As part of Whatcom Water Week, Streams of Through Film Festival will feature four films at the Pickford Film Center:
Ebb and Flow: Sept. 16, 6:30-8:30pm
his film follows 93yr old Jerry (Eiichi) Yamashita’s recounting of the family history to his son Patrick, around a campfire on their shellfish ti...
Poulsbo: Introduction to Invasive Green Crabs
Photo: Greg C Jensen
(Poulsbo) Washington’s salt marshes and pocket estuaries are incredibly diverse and productive habitats. Unfortunately, they are also highly threatened by shoreline development, pollution, and now, a potential invader. European green crabs (Carcinus maenas), often listed ...
Preview of the 2016 Eastern Bering Sea Pollock Stock Assessment
Washington Sea Grant, the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and the UW College of the Environment invite you to attend a preview of the most recent assessment of the Eastern Bering Sea (EBS) pollock—the target of one of the world’s largest fisheries. The forum provides fishery stakeholders...
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...
Nighttime Low-tide Beach Walk
Don your rubber boots, grab a flashlight and join Seattle Aquarium Beach Naturalist staff and volunteers to explore the intertidal world of Washington’s coasts.
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2020 UN Ocean Conference
The Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, comes at a critical time as the world is strengthening its efforts to mobilize, create and drive solutions to realize the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. As one of the first milestones of UN Secretary-General Antonio...
Capturing an emerging invasion: Arrival of European green crab
After three decades on the coast, the globally-damaging invasive European green crab was first spotted on Washington’s inland shorelines in 2016. In other parts of the world where the crab has successfully invaded, it has harmed populations of native shellfish and other species and resulted in dam...
2018 Volume 2
2018 Volume 2
Summertime Crabbing
September 7, 2018
WSG Crab Team first piloted its monitoring protocols in August 2015, when 30 volunteers monitored 7 sites. This year, the program has grown to have 200 volunteers and 25 staff from partner agencies and area...
Building Citizen Science with Volunteers as Partners: Part 3
The field of citizen science has grown explosively over the last decade, benefitting from excellent PR, Presidential shout-outs, advances in big data, and, not least, a Web 2.0 world replete with hashtags, networks, and crowdsourcing. It turns out people love doing science in their spare time! The h...