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  A leader in research, outreach, and education for more than 45 years, Washington Sea Grant helps people to understand and address the challenges facing Washington’s ocean and coasts. News   Geoduck Aquaculture Farming is Subject of New Study The first major scientific study to examin...
• Harmful Algal Blooms
  Harmful Algal Blooms Several species of single-celled algae growing in Washington produce potent toxins that can poison marine animals or become concentrated in shellfish and sicken, even kill, humans who eat them. Even when they don’t harm humans, toxic blooms can force costly shutdowns ...
• Crab Team Takes Willapa Bay by Storm: Part 3
  November 15, 2016 This series of three posts was originally written in August, but was pre-empted by the news of European green crab captures on San Juan Island and in Padilla Bay. Better late than never, here are our field notes on green crab trapping in Willapa Bay during August of this year. Re...
• Ocean Acidification
  Ocean Acidification The oceans’ absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is causing fundamental changes in seawater chemistry. CO2 reacts with water to form carbonic acid, which makes seawater more acidic. This process, known as ocean acidification (or OA) ha...
• Director’s Note: The Pull of King Tides
  January 16, 2020 Russell Callender, WSG Director Every winter, the Earth, sun and moon align to create fascinating coastal events: king tides. While ordinary tides are caused by the gravitational forces between Earth and the moon, when that gravitational pull is exacerbated b...
• Impacts from the Summer 2021 Heatwave on Washington Shellfish
  July 21, 2021 Dead butter clams. Photo: Ron Carr The record-breaking heat that hit the Pacific Northwest from June 23 to 28, 2021, caused harm to many intertidal shellfish and invertebrate species on Washington beaches. On many beaches, species such as cockles, varnish clams, butter clams, and nativ...
• 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...
• Geoduck Harvesters Impacted by Tariffs Offered Refunds
  July 9, 2018 The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering financial relief to eight geoduck harvesting companies who successfully bid to harvest wild geoduck from state-owned aquatic lands. This effort is in response to China’s announcement of 25% tariffs on American...
• 2019 Knauss Fellows Placed in Executive and Legislative Offices in Washington, D.C.
  December 10, 2018 Five University of Washington (UW) graduates have been selected for the 2019 class of the National Sea Grant College Program’s prestigious John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship to study, develop and implement policies that address ocean and coastal management issues. T...
• 2020 Volume 1
  2020 Volume 1 Committed Crabbers November, 2020 This year was already poised to be exceptionally busy for WSG Crab Team and the management of the European green crab invasion in Washington – even before we were faced with a global pandemic. Through la...
• Debris from Shellfish Aquaculture Finds New Life as Crab Gauges
  From the Autumn 2022 Sea Star Washington Sea Grant supported an innovative pilot project repurposing marine debris, transforming it into a useful tool for recreational crabbers By Benjamin Haagen, WSG Science Communications Fellow Aaron Barnett of WSG, center, with a team from Western Washington Uni...
• The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and the Legacy in Washington 10 Years Later
  March 11, 2021 By Carrie Garrison-Laney, WSG Tsunami Hazards Specialist and PMEL Liaison Tsunami damage in Onagawa, Ishinomaki, Japan in 2011. Photo by Shunichi Koshimura On March 11, 2011 the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan — the 4th largest ever recorded worldwide — and the resulting...
• Story of Simon the Salmon
  Seagrass Wars: The Spots Awaken Seagrass is under attack! Hit ‘play’ to learn more, then take the ‘Sequel Challenge’ (to the right→) Oysters and Seagrass—Guardians of the Sea! Oysters—Nature’s vacuum cleaners ...
• Ten recent graduates selected for the 2024-2025 WSG Hershman Fellowship
  August 22, 2024 Congratulations to our new WSG Hershman Fellows! We are pleased to announce that recent graduates Elise Adams, Jessica Clemens, Nika Hoffman, Heeju Jung, Jess Lechtenberg, Allison Morgan, Courtney Murphy, Rondi Nordal, Katalin Plummer and Jack Winterhalter have been awarded the Washi...
• Salish Sea-wide Molt Blitz!
  Washington Sea Grant and Washington State University Extension have teamed up to launch a new volunteer-based early detection program to complement the existing Crab Team monitoring network. Already trained? Stop by your local shoreline on June 20th to complete a Molt Search independently, contribut...