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• WSG welcomes new Science Communications fellows
  Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is happy to welcome two new Science Communications fellows, Jess Davis and Brian McGreal. As part of the communications team, Jess will contribute to the WSG News Blog, monthly newsletter and social media. Brian will write for the communications team as well as focus on ev...
• Incorporating people into restoration policy
  August 21, 2018 “Protecting Puget Sound is not just about recovering certain species of fish. As the region continues to grow, it is also about protecting the livelihoods and diverse cultures of the people who live there, and balancing their needs with the needs of the natural world.” Re...
• 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...
• Reimagining Our Future Shorelines
  From the winter 2020–2021 Sea Star print newsletter The Washington Coastal Resilience Project will continue to help communities prepare for shoreline hazards for years to come   By MaryAnn Wagner, WSG Assistant Director for Communications Owen Beach, located in Point Defiance Park, is a popular a...
• New Study: How to Save a Seabird
  In the 1990s, the endangered status of the short-tailed albatross catalyzed efforts to reduce the number of birds accidentally killed as bycatch in Alaska, home to the country’s biggest fisheries. Marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin, at Washington Sea Grant at the University of Washington, and re...
• Sea-level rise report will help urban planners
  August 9, 2018 A sea-level rise report led by Washington Sea Grant and the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group provides the clearest picture yet of what to expect in sea-level rise along Washington State coastlines. Coverage in the Tacoma Weekly News recognizes that the informatio...
• Crab Team and COVID-19
  March 31, 2020 March and April are typically the busiest months on the Crab Team annual calendar, as staff and volunteers reunite for training workshops to relaunch the monitoring season. This spring, however, the Crab Team office has been almost entirely empty over the past month. The leadership o...
• Washington Sea Grant Receives $1.1 Million in Federal Funding for Aquaculture Research
  November 3, 2017 Read in UW News Aquaculture has been a mainstay of Washington’s economy since the state’s founding, and there is still potential for more growth. Three federal grants announced this week will provide total funding of $1.1 million to Washington Sea Grant, based at the University ...
• Shoreline restoration: community science to monitor effectiveness
  July 10, 2023 Read on UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences News. Jason Toft surveying for beach wrack. Photo courtesy of Jason Toft. Jason Toft from the UW Wetland Ecosystem Team has been monitoring shoreline armor restoration in Puget Sound for over a decade at sites where artificial armor ...
• Invasive green crabs poised to move to South Sound
  King5 News covered the spread of invasive European green crab in a recent article. “Since the first spotting in 2016, green crab have now been located at seven different sites. McDonald and others are worried that the crabs will get more challenging to remove if they’re able to make it t...
• How the Elwha Dam Removals Changed the River’s Mouth
  January 18, 2018 Read in UW News For decades, resource managers agreed that removing the two dams on the Elwha River would be a big win for the watershed as a whole and, in particular, for its anadromous trout and salmon. The dams sat on the river for more than 100 years, trapping approximately 30 m...
• Researchers Discover Yessotoxins, Produced by Certain Phytoplankton, to be a Culprit Behind Summer Mass Shellfish Mortality Events in Washington
  June 17, 2021 Dying clams on Hood Canal, Rocky Bay, 2019.King et al, Harmful Algae, 2021 Back in the summers of 2018 and 2019, the shellfish industry in Washington state was rocked by mass mortalities of its crops. “It was oysters, clams, cockles — all bivalve species in some bays were impacted...
• New Staff: WSG Welcomes Andrea Chateaubriand and Sam Cheplick
  February 28, 2022 We are thrilled to welcome two new staff to the team: Andrea Chateaubriand and Sam Cheplick. Andrea joined WSG in December 2021 as the executive assistant. In this role, she collaborates with the WSG director and leadership team and plays an integral role in managing events, projec...
• 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...
• 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...