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• Crab Team’s Rapid Response: Day 2 & 3, the Big Finale!
  September 14, 2016 Emily here again, this time from back in Seattle. Our boots are washed, the gear is stowed, and we are all ready for some well-earned rest. But first, a quick update to fill you in on the rest of our rapid response sampling effort on San Juan Island (read about Day 1). Number of ...
• Harmful Algal Blooms
  Harmful Algal Blooms Several species of single-celled algae growing in Washington produce potent toxins that can poison marine animals or become concentrated in shellfish and sicken, even kill, humans who eat them. Even when they don’t harm humans, toxic blooms can force costly shutdowns ...
• Ocean Acidification
  Ocean Acidification The oceans’ absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is causing fundamental changes in seawater chemistry. CO2 reacts with water to form carbonic acid, which makes seawater more acidic. This process, known as ocean acidification (or OA) ha...
• Crab Team Takes Willapa Bay by Storm: Part 3
  November 15, 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. Re...
• WSG celebrates Seafood Month
  October, 2018 This month, Washington Sea Grant joins in on Seafood Month celebrations with weekly stories from our programs that support fisheries, aquaculture and the people who are at the center of them. Week One: Fisheries and People  The theme of the week is fisheries and people. Read about WSG...
• New guide from the Washington Coastal Resilience Project helps coastal planners use the latest sea level rise data
  July 9, 2020  IN BRIEF: The Washington Coastal Resilience Project team – a collaboration between the state’s Department of Ecology, the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group and Washington Sea Grant – are releasing How to Choose, a guide to support the use of available sea level ris...
• New story map unites sea gardens around the Pacific and shows the importance of revitalizing Indigenous mariculture practices for food sovereignty and resilience
  February 17, 2022 See the interactive, “living” story map at www.seagardens.net Clam Garden on British Columbia’s Central Coast – Photo by Keith Holmes, Hakai Institute Indigenous People have been stewarding the ocean for thousands of years. This stewardship has appeared in many differen...
• Teri King starts a new chapter
  December 6, 2023 After working at Washington Sea Grant (WSG) for more than 30 years, Teri King, aquaculture and marine water quality specialist, has moved on to her next chapter.  King joined WSG in 1990. Over the next three decades, she built an innovative program of outreach and technical assista...
• Twenty years of NOAA Science Camp
  NOAA Science Camp has brought a breadth of marine programming to middle and high school students since 2003 From the Winter 2023/2024 Sea Star By Samantha Larson, WSG Science Writer Minutes away from Seattle’s Space Needle and skyscrapers, a pocket beach along the waterfront hosts an abundance of ...
• The first Seaweed Knowledge Symposium covered the challenges and opportunities of a burgeoning field
  December 5, 2023 Watch the video recordings of the December 2022 Seaweed Knowledge Symposium online The seaweed of Puget Sound. Photo credit: Simone Alin Seaweed aquaculture in Washington is a bit like the “Cheshire cat”: though there are a handful of commercial farms and restoration projects, a...
• Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Thomas Foster-Kibbler and Heather Auld of Foster Fisheries
  January 24, 2024 By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer Thomas Foster-Kibbler. Photo courtesy of Heather Auld. Before Thomas Foster-Kibbler got into commercial fishing, he wanted to be an EMT on a firefighting crew. He was living in sunny Los Angeles County, training to help others. The problem? He wa...
• Washington Sea Grant Receives Funding from The Builders Initiative to Support Restorative Aquaculture
  January 26, 2022 Washington Sea Grant will use the $400,000 grant to further two key projects: the Cross-Pacific Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative and the Washington Seaweed Collaborative From tribal fishermen exercising their treaty fishing rights to oyster farmers in south Puget Sound, seafood ...
• New staff: WSG welcomes Sanpisa Sritrairat
  November 15, 2023 Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to welcome Sanpisa Sritrairat as the new community engagement specialist. Growing up on the coast of Thailand, Sanpisa developed a deep love for coastal ecosystems. She has dedicated her career to protecting these ecosystems and the communitie...
• The Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship has a track record of launching recent graduates into marine policy careers
  Many Hershman alums find themselves coming back full circle as they mentor the next generation of fellows From the Winter 2023/2024 Sea Star By Samantha Larson, WSG Science Writer Since 2008, Washington Sea Grant (WSG) has placed recent graduate students in offices across the state to spend a year w...
• New staff: WSG welcomes Manya Chadha
  March 4, 2024 Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is pleased to welcome Manya Chadha as a new student assistant on the communications team. In this role, Manya collaborates with the WSG communications team to manage and revamp WSG’s website, report communications and social media metrics and assist in int...