Updated Plan to Address Ocean Acidification in Washington State
December 20, 2017
Ocean acidification is threatening ecosystems, cultures and economies in Washington State – today. In 2012, Governor Jay Inslee recognized the importance of developing a strategy to address these challenges by creating the Washington State Blue Ribbon Panel on Ocean Acidification...
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...
Conservation Needs to be About People, Too
NEWS RELEASE
JUNE 21, 2017
CONTACT: Melissa Poe, Social Scientist, Washington Sea Grant at 206-685-8209 or email mpoe@uw.edu
Conservation Needs to be About People, Too
The book Conservation in the Anthropocene Ocean is an interdisciplinary guide for reframing conservati...
Restoring tradition, place and connection through a clam garden
From the Summer 2023 Sea Star
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s clam garden reclaims an ancient Indigenous practice on ancestral land
By Samantha Larson, WSG Science Writer
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and guests building the clam garden wall. Photo courtesy of the Northwest Indian ...
Learn to Read the Northwest’s Marine Weather
This marine weather workshop, co-sponsored by Washington Sea Grant and the Port of Seattle Fishermen’s Terminal, will include topics such as storm structure, wave development and growth, the relationship between atmospheric pressure and wind, key features of low-pressure systems, how to determine ...
Looking Back on 50 Years: Longtime WSG Staff Reflect on Their Work
From the winter 2021–2022 Sea Star print newsletter
In honor of the program’s golden anniversary, we asked four current and former staff to reflect on what they have accomplished here
By Grace Freeman, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Based in Seattle and housed within the University of Washin...
The Sonic World of the Amazonian Pink Dolphin
David Bonnett, Citizen Scientist
The Fort Worden Chapel
Admission: $5
(students, teachers FREE)
Mr Bonnett will present his most recent finding of his acoustical research with Amazonian Pink Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) including how ecosystem changes in the Amazon are impacting this species and how t...
Art and Science of the Marine Micro World
Carla Stehr will join the Port Townsend Marine Science Center in its third installment of The Future of the Oceans lecture series. Stehr is a retired NOAA Marine Biologist who applies her fascination with the patterns and textures of marine life to her art. Visit her website to learn more.
Su...
Marine Life
Marine Life
Washington’s waters are home to an extraordinary community of marine plants and animals, including legendary salmon runs and three pods of resident killer whales. The world’s largest octopus, starfish, moon snail, and burrowing clam all reside in Washington. But the region...
Washington Sea Grant Receives Continued Federal Funding for Aquaculture Collaboratives
September 22, 2022
The Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative and West Coast Aquaculture Collaborative are among the projects to receive support for another two years
170 stewards gathered at the Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative gathering in Hawai’i in February 2020.
NOAA Sea Grant is contin...