Green Crab Molt Found in False Bay, San Juan Island
June 9, 2025
The molt at False Bay was textbook, opening at the “molt line” between the top and bottom of the shell, and showing a clean interior. When crabs molt, they even leave the covering to their gill tissue behind! Photo courtesy of Megan Cosand. Click to enlarge.
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Protocol In Focus: Why Do We Use Two Types of Trap?
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 learn from the data...
Widening the Search for European Green Crab in the Strait of Juan de Fuca
July 20, 2017
Trapping to remove invasive European green crab from Dungeness Spit National Wildlife Refuge is in its 15th week since the initial discovery of four individuals during April of this year. As of last Friday, partners with US Fish and Wildlife Service (UWFWS) and Washington Department of...
Shoreline Living and Restoration Outreach
Shoreline Living and Restoration
We also offer local activities and training on salmon and beach-naturalist and stewardship programming. Learn more in Ocean Learning.
Bivalves for Clean Water
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Using an Acoustic Camera to Observe How Fish Respond to Seawall Habitat Enhancements, Phase 2
FILMING SALMON AT THE SEATTLE SEAWALL
Using an Acoustic Camera to Observe How Fish Respond to Seawall Habitat Enhancements, Phase 2
In collaboration with the City of Seattle, investigators utilized a habitat-friendly design for documenting activity around the downtown seawall, showing the w...
Lessons for Washington from the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011
January 15, 2020
It is hard to comprehend the scale of damage that resulted from the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Entire forests, neighborhoods and even towns were washed away. It caused the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Overall, almost 20,000 people were proclaimed dead or missing.
More than ei...
WASI Case Studies
Washington Applied Sustainability Internship Program
The Washington Applied Sustainability Internship (WASI) program is a summer internship program designed to link dedicated engineering, chemistry, sustainability and environmental sciences students with business and industry...
Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal Project – Fall SCPG Meeting
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Please contact Nicole Faghin to be placed on waitlist.
Join us on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, to learn about the new Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal Project. This one-day workshop will explore a wide range of issues leading up to the project including the site history, Mukilteo mas...
Five UW Graduates Selected for the 2021–2022 WSG Hershman Fellowship
September 2, 2021
We are pleased to announce that recent University of Washington (UW) graduates Allison Lu, Corinne Noufi, Katie Byrnes, Katie Shelledy and Natalie Lowell have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship for 2021-2022. This fellowship places highly motivated, qualif...
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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...
Protocol in Focus: Why do we measure native crabs, too?
June 18, 2024
Why Measure Native Species?
A Dungeness crab resigning itself to getting measured by a monitor at Kala Lagoon (site #204). Photo credit: Wendy Feltham
When it comes to interactions between crabs, whether of the same species or of differing species, size matters. When crabs run into eac...
Protocol in Focus: Why do we survey the habitat transect every month?
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. Protocol in Fo...
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