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• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Salmon may lose the ability to smell danger as carbon emissions rise
  December 18, 2018 The ability to smell is critical for salmon. They depend on scent to avoid predators, sniff out prey and find their way home at the end of their lives when they return to the streams where they hatched to spawn and die. New research from the University of Washington and NOAA Fishe...
• 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...
• Fishing for the Triple Bottom Line: Profit, Planet — And People
  October 17, 2019 A school of Pacific herring. Fisheries managers typically strive to strike a delicate balance between two, often competing, types of needs: the needs for fishermen’s profits and the needs for the planet. But in 1994, entrepreneur John Elkington posited that true sustainability req...
• New staff: WSG welcomes Alison Lorenz
  November 28, 2023 Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to welcome Alison Lorenz as a new science writer. In this role, Alison creates and proofs flyers, blog posts, news releases, reports, and more to keep the public connected to WSG’s work across its program areas. She also supports WSG’s med...
• Make Whale for Change: New Rules for Whale Watching in the Salish Sea
  From the Autumn 2022 Sea Star New research finds that rules to protect endangered southern resident killer whales could mean less demand for commercial whale watching — but tour operators have options for making up the difference Maddie Hansen, WSG Science Communications Fellow The Salish Sea is a...
• Using lasers to deter birds
  July 26, 2018 In 2016, Washington Sea Grant marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin published a study on whether laser light can prevent seabird bycatch in North Pacific fisheries. Since then, Melvin has encouraged and supported researchers at Purdue Universtiy to study the risk of injuries to birds w...
• Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Anticipate and Adapt to Ocean Change
  April 1, 2018 Read in UW News The productive ocean off Washington state’s Olympic Coast supports an abundant web of life including kelp forests, fish, shellfish, seabirds and marine mammals. The harvest and use of these treaty-protected marine resources have been central to the local tribes’ liv...
• Head Outdoors This Holiday Season to Help Build a Picture of the Future by Witnessing Local King Tides!
  October 30, 2021 Instantly share photos of this season’s biggest tides with researchers and your community using the MyCoast app Ocean Shores, WA; Photo Credit: Joelle DailyLongbranch, WA; Photo Credit: Kristine BabbishPoulsbo, WA; Photo Credit: Julie MiddletonGreenbank, WA; Photo Credit: Rand...
• Sea Grant Announces 2018 Aquaculture Research Awards
  October 17, 2018 NOAA Sea Grant announced the award of $11 million in grants for 22 projects to further advance the development of a sustainable marine and coastal aquaculture industry in the U.S. Washington Sea Grant is pleased to receive funding for one of the 22 projects titled: Consumer-focused...
• Russell Callender Nominated for NOAA Distinguished Career Award
  May 2, 2019 Congratulations to WSG Director Russell Callender for his nomination to the NOAA Distinguished Career Award for Professional Achievement. The award recognizes significant accomplishments that have resulted in long-term benefits to the bureau’s mission and strategic goals. Dr. Callender...