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Green Crabs Have Arrived in Puget Sound: Are They Here to Stay?
Green Crabs Have Arrived in Puget Sound: Are They Here to Stay?
Washington Sea Grant’s monitoring program works to prevent invasive green crabs from establishing populations in Puget Sound
By Jasmine Prat, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Puget Sound shorelines are teem...
The Mountain-Moving “Mosquito” of Ocean Acidification
The Mountain-Moving “Mosquito” of Ocean Acidification
Washington Sea Grant’s Meg Chadsey proves the power of one to mobilize action on a very big issue.
The Journal of Irreproducible Results once published a paper calculating how quickly the Pacific and Atlantic coasts ...
Monitoring the Damage in the Heat Wave’s Wake
From the Autumn 2022 Sea Star
Washington Sea Grant rapidly provided funding to two projects to survey the impacts of the historic June 2021 heat wave on intertidal marine life
By Samantha Larson, WSG Science Writer
Joe Williams, front, and Darrell Williams with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community...
National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series
Tune into the National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series: Giant Seabass – Kings of the Kelp Forest.
Giant Seabass are a species of large fish that live in the cool waters off the coast of California. This fish is the top predator of the kelp forest but the population has been low because of ov...
Coastal Hazards
Coastal Hazards in Washington State
Dwellers on Washington’s seismically active, highly exposed shores face a daunting range of natural and human-induced hazards. Some are continual and inexorable, such as climate-driven sea level rise. Some are commonplace phenomena, such as winter storm...
Winter 2023-24 Sea Star
March 5, 2024
The new issue of our biannual magazine is now available!
Catch up on Washington Sea Grant’s (WSG) recent research, outreach and education programs across the state through Sea Star, our biannual magazine.
The winter 2023-24 issue includes five feature stories diggin...
Protocol in Focus: What is “live epifauna”?
September 8, 2016
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among different sites, and track changes over time – even if different people are doing the sampling. With sampling on this scale, even the small steps can be important to what we l...
Climate Science on Tap: Oysters, Upwelling and Ocean Acidification
When infant oysters began dying off in record numbers, reportedly due to the increased acidification of Pacific Northwest waters, the Washington State Legislature asked the UW Dept. of Oceanography’s scientists for help.
Parker MacCready, Ph.D, a physical oceanographer, has led a team developi...
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...
Rapid Response Network
Rapid Response Network
Coordinated by Ashleigh Epps, Washington Sea Grant; Rana Brown, Squaxin Island Tribe; and Julieta Martinelli, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact: deadshellfish@uw.edu
About the Network
Shellfish have been an integral part of the life of W...
Elder Memories, Ancient DNA and the Fate of the Herring
Elder Memories, Ancient DNA and the Fate of the Herring
WSG researcher Lorenz Hauser leads a binational, multidisciplinary investigation into the decline of the North Pacific’s little big fish.
Conservation is a never-ending battle against collective amnesia. As living...
Vashon BioBlitz
Jeff Adams is leading a BioBlitz on Vashon Island! A BioBlitz is a rapid and fun biological survey where scientists and members of the public join together to find and record as many species of plants and wildlife as they can in 24 hours. BioBlitz events happen all over the world. BioBlitz events on...
Elder Memories, Ancient DNA and the Fate of the Herring
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onservation is a never-ending battle against collective amnesia. As living resources are consumed or extinguished, baselines shift. Past abundance is forgotten, and new generations adjust to a diminished new normal.
A case in point is the forage fishes that are foundations of the marine ...