Online 2020 Summer Beach Walk
Join the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (remotely) for a series of online streaming Low Tide Walk events! Instead of the usual public programs, they’re going to be hosting a social-distancing friendly version. You can participate from home via social media during the scheduled event time,...
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
*Exact April 2018 dates TBA*
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is returning to Bell Harbor Marina for the 2017/18 race!
The twelve Clipper 70s, the world’s largest matched yacht race fleet, will be berthed at Port of Seattle‘s Bell Harbor Marina in April 2018 after completing the m...
European green crab found at Kala Point Lagoon
September 19, 2018
Earlier this month, WSG Crab Team found invasive European green crab at Kala Point Lagoon in Port Townsend. Read more about the discovery and its implications in the article below, from The Port Townsend Leader. A big thanks to the hardworking Crab Team volunteers who ha...
Help Us Improve Washington Waters Through Our Boater Outreach Survey
September 17, 2020
Attention boaters!
Do you have a few minutes to learn about marine debris and help us in our efforts to improve Washington State’s waters and beaches? You can help by taking out boater outreach survey.
Take the survey here: http://tinyurl.com/WSGSurvey
Thanks so much for your ...
Effects of Ocean Acidification on Trophically Important Crustacean Zooplankton of Washington State
Acidification effects on crustacean zooplankton
Effects of Ocean Acidification on Trophically Important Crustacean Zooplankton of Washington State
Researchers quantified the differential growth and survival rates in acidified waters of zooplankton species that are fundamental to the marine ...
Webinar: What To Expect When You’re Expecting… A Tsunami
Did the Alaska earthquake and tsunami on October 19th have you wondering how you’ll be alerted if a tsunami is about to strike Washington? Join experts from the Washington Geological Survey and Washington Emergency Management Division in this free webinar to learn about how tsunamis can impact Was...
Kitsap Beach Restoration Tour
You are invited to a Kitsap Beach Restoration Tour, a walking tour starting at the JA & Anna F Smith Childrens Park.
Christina Kereki will show us two shoreline restoration projects. Project Engineer Dan Nickel and Shore Friendly Project Geologist Wendy Gerstel will present on this tour.
Please ...
Effects of Ocean Acidification on Declining Puget Sound Calcifiers
Ocean Acidification Effects on Calcifiers
Effects of Ocean Acidification on Declining Puget Sound Calcifiers
Examining five ecologically and economically important bivalves, researchers found these species exhibit different susceptibility to increasing CO2 levels. Under the conditions tes...
Salmon Docent Training
Learn about Important Salmon Species in Kitsap County
Learn about salmon habitat, life cycle, and species in the Puget Sound. Salmon expert Paul Dorn shares his varied, extensive experience and knowledge of species and issues affecting salmon in the Salish Sea. Once trained, share your knowledge wit...
Moving Mountains: The Elwha River is still changing
September 6, 2018
When the two dams on the Elwah River were removed starting in 2011, it was the world’s largest project of that kind. Years later, the now free-flowing river continues to mend and reshape its surrounding environments. A new study documenting the changes in sediment was publish...
Funding and Financing Coastal Resilience – Virtual Training
This virtual training is the first in a series being planned by NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management to help build knowledge about funding and financing for coastal resilience activities. The guest speakers are experts on this topic who will share the basics of funding and financing mechanisms, pr...
Grays Harbor Shorebird and Nature Festival
Celebrating the natural world and the spring shorebird migration!
Hosted by the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, this festival celebrates the thousands of shorebirds that stop along the Washington coast and in Grays Harbor during their migration northward. WSG Crab Team will host a booth May 4...
European green crab’s reach stretches across North Olympic Peninsula
October 3, 2018
A new story in the Sequim Gazette featuring WSG aquatic invasive species specialist Emily Grason details how far invasive European green crab have spread on the Olympic Peninsula.
Read the story here: http://www.sequimgazette.com/news/european-green-crabs-reach-stretches-across-nort...
About WSG Crab Team
About WSG Crab Team
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Washington Sea Grant’s Crab Team was launched in 2015, in response to a Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) mandate to monitor for European green crabs along inland Washington shorelines. By using citizen...