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 – ...
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...
Other Opportunities
Other Opportunities
Learn about the many opportunities available to professionals and undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral scholars interested in gaining first-hand experience in marine science and policy.
Undergraduate Opportunities
Association for Women ...
CANCELED: 27th Conference for Shellfish Growers
It is with an abundance of caution that the director of Washington Sea Grant has decided to cancel the Conference for Shellfish Growers scheduled for March 9 and 10, 2020, in order not to risk anyone’s health and wellness given the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in our state.
As a program...
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Another Successful Year of the Tsunami Roadshow
WSG Tsunami Hazards Specialist Carrie Garris...
Washington Grad Students Tackle Real-World Marine Challenges
Washington Sea Grant’s latest set of fellows place gifted students in the agencies where they can do the most good. From working as a divemaster in Thailand to investigating 150 years of shrinking ice seasons on Lake Superior while still in high school, Washington Sea Grant’s fellows h...
Michele Blanchflower
Michele Blanchflower
Fiscal Specialist Supervisor
Michele Blanchflower joined Washington Sea Grant in March 2023. In her new role, as Fiscal Specialist Supervisor, she supports administrative and fiscal functions, assisting with coordination, planning, reconciliation, forecasting, procurement, and e...
Statement of Solidarity with the AAPI Community
March 24, 2021
We at Washington Sea Grant (WSG) are deeply saddened and angered by the murders that occurred in Atlanta spas last week, the latest manifestation of the hate and violence escalating against Asians over the past year.
Asians, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are integral m...
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 ...
Community-Engaged Internship
Application is currently: CLOSED
(we do not anticipate hosting a CEI intern in 2023)
Washington Sea Grant Community-Engaged Internship
A paid, 10-week summer internship opportunity in southwest Washington State for undergraduate students in any field of study with a...
Seven Recent Graduates Selected for the 2022–2023 WSG Hershman Fellowship
September 28, 2022
Congratulations to our new WSG Hershman Fellows!
We are pleased to announce that recent graduates Grace Adams, Abigail Ames, Monea Kerr, Kathryn Loy, Jenna Rolf, Harshitha Sai Viswanathan and Olivia Zimmerman have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship for 2022...
Carbon comes home
Carbon Comes Home
How a serendipitous connection led ocean acidification researchers to an island farm
Back in the early 2000s, Washington State was ground zero for ocean acidification,” Meg Chadsey, ocean acidification specialist at Washington Sea Grant (WSG), says. “Fossil fuel emissi...
Expanding Opportunities for Students Through Fellowships
The new Keystone Fellowship and Undergraduate Science Communications Fellowships aim to reach a broader and more diverse group of students and recent graduates
From the spring 2020 Sea Star print newsletter
By Bobbie Buzzell, WSG Science Communications Fellow
“For over 40 years, Washingto...
Hoisting Sails SS
Hoisting Sails
Maritime Discovery Schools Initiative Helps Teachers Foster the Next Generation of Maritime Workers
On a drizzly day early this fall, more than 130 first and second graders from Grant Street Elementary crawled in their stocking feet from the dock onto the deck of the s...