Test Your Well Water with Well Education & Testing (WET)
Well Education & Testing (WET) invites you to take a look at the health of your well! Learn about keeping your drinking water safe.
WET, a Washington Sea Grant program, provides homeowners with a local, inexpensive way to test their well water.
Washington State Department of Health recommends an...
What is the State of Your Oyster?
Are your oysters healthy? WSG volunteers provide landowners evaluations of bacterial contamination for privately owned beaches in Hood Canal and throughout Puget Sound at these locations:
Hunter Farms
1921 E. State Route 106, Union, WA
QFC parking lot, under flag pole – pharmacy side – ...
State of the Oyster Study
State of the Oyster Study invites you to join them to look at bacterial contamination on privately owned beaches in Hood Canal and Puget Sound. Collection dates for the 2021 season are:
May 31 • June 27 • July 25 • August 22
Samples with payment and collection forms may be dropped off at...
Deborah Purce
Deborah Purce
Fellowship and Research Specialist
Expertise
Marine natural history
Community Outreach and Engagement
Informal science education
Systems innovation
Diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM
Deborah joined Washington Sea Grant in 2018. As the Fellowship...
2019 Volume 2
2019 Volume 2
Recipe for Successful Management
November, 2019
We’re often asked if you can eat green crabs, and whether that is a key to managing them. Green crabs are edible, but thankfully, we don’t currently have anywhere near the number of cr...
Making Adventure Accessible
Sea Wolf Adventures takes passengers with disabilities to the Pacific Northwest’s most beautiful places
From the spring 2020 Sea Star print newsletter
Kimber Owen, owner of Sea Wolf Adventures, has an exceptional memory for the people that she’s taken on her 12-passenger cruise ship, whi...
Melissa Poe to serve as WSG assistant director for outreach
November 1, 2023
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) has appointed Dr. Melissa Poe to assistant director for outreach. Poe has been at WSG for 10 years, leading the social science program in work to identify, define and incorporate measures of human well-being and cultural practices into marine planning and ...
Logging Change in Puget Sound
From the winter 2021–2022 Sea Star print newsletter
Researchers use UW vessel logbooks to reconstruct historical groundfish populations
The R/V Commando passes through the Montlake Cut. Skipper Tom Oswold Jr. is on the flying bridge and engineer Olaf Rockness is on the bow. Photo: Bob Hitz
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Crab Team Welcomes Program Assistant
Header photo: assisting with the Cape Eleuthera Institute’s green sea turtle research.
January 17, 2018
Checking out a hermit crab on Isla Espíritu Santo, off the coast Baja California Sur, Mexico – I was destined to join the Crab Team! Photo: Ke...
Cool Critters: Heermann’s Gull
April 17, 2021
Welcome to our Cool Critters series, where Marine Ecologist Jeff Adams shares the unique features of his favorite marine animals native to the Pacific Northwest. Today’s Cool Critter is the Heerrmann Gull!
Heermann’s Gulls (Larus heermanni) are...
Geoducks — A Compendium
Geoducks — A Compendium
The April 2015 issue of the Journal of Shellfish Research focuses on geoduck research in North America (Mexico, United States) and New Zealand. Six articles were contributed by WSG-funded researchers who have been studying various aspects of geoduck in the Pacific Northwe...
Melissa Poe
Melissa Poe
Assistant Director for Outreach
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise
Social and cultural dimensions of coasts, oceans and climate resilience
Indigenous and local knowledges
Subsistence practices and wild food systems
Applying anthropology, ethnoecology, political ecology, and cultural g...
WDFW, Washington Sea Grant promote #LocalWASeafood
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 25, 2020
Contact: Eryn Couch, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 360-890-6604 MaryAnn Wagner, Washington Sea Grant
Celebrate June 28 Ceviche Day with Local Washington Seafood
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington Sea Grant...
Unique Washington
Our Unique Northwest
Washingtonians have a deep, passionate relationship with their state’s rich coastal ecology and matchless marine resources. Geology, climate, ocean currents, biological evolution, human history, and social adaptation converge to create a physical, cultural, and economic s...
Cool Critters: Purple Shore Crab
April 17, 2021
Welcome to our Cool Critters series, where Marine Ecologist Jeff Adams shares the unique features of his favorite marine animals native to the Pacific Northwest. Today’s Cool Critter is the Purple Shore Crab!
The Purple Shore Crab (Hemigrapsus nudus) is a small (<2″...