River & Ocean Film Festival
Save the Date for this year’s River and Ocean Film Festival
The 8th River and Ocean Film Festival is slated to return in 2024!
Save the date for October 18th at the Rainforest Arts Center in Forks, for the 8th annual River and Ocean Film Festival. As always, ...
Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Mike Cornman of Westport Seafood
August 30, 2022
By Olivia Horwedel, WSG Science Communications Fellow
A Westport Seafood fishing vessel. Photo credit: Michael Bruce
Mike Cornman, owner of Westport Seafood and Merino’s Seafood Market, was destined to work a career connected to the ocean. Cornman grew up in Westport, Washington ...
FISH 2.0 U.S. Aquaculture Workshop – in Seattle
Fish 2.0, the global community for seafood innovators, is holding a two-day workshop for U.S. West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii aquaculture businesses April 30–May 1, 2019, at the University of Washington in Seattle. The program culminates with a pitch and networking session at the World Trade Center...
Selling your catch: Sea Grant programs release new edition of direct marketing guide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 22, 2018
CONTACT:
Paula Dobbyn, Alaska Sea Grant, 907-274-9698, paula.dobbyn@alaska.edu
MaryAnn Wagner, Washington Sea Grant, 206-616-6353, maryannb@uw.edu
Selling your catch: Sea Grant programs release new edition of
direct marketing guide
The Sea Grant programs in...
2018 Volume 1
2018 Volume 1
Back Out in the Mud
February 28th, 2018
Last month we launched Washington Sea Grant Crab Team’s third official monitoring season. After a successful and fun month of training workshops in March, all 225+ volunteer and partner monitors are alr...
Protocol In Focus: Why do we estimate the roots of vegetation?
June 3, 2019
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among 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 learn from the data. P...
Protocol in Focus: What Happens to My Data?
November 21, 2017
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among 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 learn from the da...
2022 Volume 1
2022 Volume 1
A Green Crab Emergency
August 17, 2022
As the long radio silence might imply, things have been busy since our last newsletter in the fall of 2021. Last winter, several emergency declarations related to green crab, including Lummi Nation, Shoalw...
2021 Volume 1
2021 Volume 1
Let the trapping begin!
June, 2021
This spring had a lot of us reflecting on what our lives were like a year ago. In June 2020, crabbers were in the mud, just as they are now, but how they got there in 2021 looked a lot different. While green c...
Beach Walk FAQs
Beach Walk FAQs
What’s a “beach walk”?
A beach walk is also called a “beach exploration” — a chance to explore a bit of Salish Sea shoreline and the amazing creatures that inhabit it, guided by a professional naturalist or tra...
Allison Spooner
Allison Spooner
HR and Equity Manager
Expertise:
Project and Program Management
Training Design, Development, and Delivery
Interpersonal and Relationship Building
Conflict and Crisis Resolution
During her seven-year tenure at the University of Washington, Allison’s journey was a wh...
Community-Engaged Internship
Application is currently: CLOSED
(we do not anticipate hosting a CEI intern in 2024)
Washington Sea Grant Community-Engaged Internship
A paid, 10-week summer internship opportunity in southwest Washington State for undergraduate students in any field of study with a...
DEI Spotlight: Dominique Kone Reflects on his Experience as a Black, Gay Marine Ecologist
June 26, 2020
As we have been reflecting on the recent killings of Black people, the ongoing civil unrest, and Pride Month—a tradition that stems from a riot led by Black transgender women in 1969—we wanted to spotlight a voice from the Black and LGBTQI+ communities. Black, Indigenous a...
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Allison Spooner
HR and Equity Manager
Expertise:
Project and Program Management
Training Design, Development, and Delivery
Interpersonal and Relationship Building
Conflict and Crisis Resolution
Joining Washington Sea Grant in May 2024, Allison dove headfirst into her HR and Equity Manage...