Washington Sea Grant in the News
Washington Sea Grant in the News
May 2024
OUTDOORS: Invasive European green crab search training in June in Jefferson, Clallam counties
Peninsula Daily News, May 9
Citizen scientist training planned for European green crab
The Northern Light, May 8
April 2024
Sea Grant: S...
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...
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...
Crab Team Training Workshop (San Juan Island)
This event is free, but registration is required.
Interested in becoming a Crab Team volunteer monitor to help protect pocket estuaries on San Juan Island? This full-day training workshop will fully equip you to be our “Boots in the Mud” and join the Crab Team volunteer corps R...
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...
Crab Team Takes Willapa Bay by Storm!
November 3, 2016
This series of three posts was originally written in August, but was pre-empted by the news of European green crab captures on San Juan Island and in Padilla Bay. Better late than never, here are our field notes on green crab trapping in Willapa Bay during August of this year. Of...
Crab Team Training Workshop (Poulsbo)
This event is free, but registration is required.
Interested in becoming a Crab Team volunteer monitor to help protect pocket estuaries in Puget Sound? This full-day training workshop will fully equip you to be our “Boots in the Mud” and join the Crab Team volunteer corps – n...
New Crab Team Volunteer Orientation (*virtual*)
This year, we’re bringing on a small number of new volunteers to meet targeted needs of sites within our current 55-site network. No prior experience is necessary, but all participants must be at least 16 years old.
We invite you to read about what it’s like to be Boots in the Mud with ...
Duwamish Alive! Kayaking and Restoration Work
Volunteer work will be happening on land and on the water! And as a volunteer, you will have the opportunity to do both! Terminal 107 or T-107 Park, managed by the Port of Seattle, is an important historical site. It was originally built as a construction site for a marine terminal that overlooks th...
European Green Crab
Invasive European Green Crab
The European green crab (Carcinus maenas) is a small shore crab whose native distribution is in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea, ranging along coasts from northern Africa to Norway and Iceland. The crab is an effective predator, adept at opening biva...
More than just a cute face: What otters can tell us about the health of the environment
December 27, 2022
The River Otter Project used community science to shed light on contamination in the Lower Duwamish River
By Andrea Richter-Sanchez, WSG Science Communications Fellow
North American river otter. Photo by Diana Robinson.
“Otters are an easy way to engage people to care abou...
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...
2020 Salish Sea Green Crab Update
November 23, 2020
Trapping for European green crab has mostly concluded for the 2020 season, enabling us to take stock of all that was accomplished this year and provide some status updates on green crab. The obstacles this year were considerable, but volunteers and managers were more than equal to ...
National Competitions
National Competitions
American Lobster Research Funding Opportunity
The National Sea Grant College Program has announced a federal funding opportunity to support American Lobster research:
American Lobster Research Funding Opportunity – open to individuals, groups and ins...
Boat School Launches Marine Systems Training
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 7, 2018
CONTACT: Betsy Davis, Executive Director, Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
360-385-4948 or betsy@nwswb.edu
Boat School Launches Marine Systems Training
Accredited and Approved for Federal Student Aid and VA Education Benefits
Enrollment is now open for marin...