Ocean Learning

An Olympic orientation: UW Climate Impacts Group and Washington Sea Grant pilot a learning institute for emerging environmental professionals

Many job orientations start in a lobby or a conference room. This one began at the scars left by a dam and wound its way to the mouth of a great river.

January 20, 2026

Sixteen emerging environmental professionals – of different backgrounds, but together undertaking a new chapter in their careers – gathered for lunch on the pebbly shore, waves lapping near where the Elwha empties itself into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on the Olympic Peninsula. Their tour of ...

20
JAN

0

climate impacts group, fellowships, opportunities, orientation, resilience, summer, uw

Shake out! Don’t freak out! Reflections from a WSG fellow on the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe Great ShakeOut Drill

December 19, 2025

By Madeleine Lucas, WSG Coastal Resilience Fellow

On October 16 at 10:16 a.m., Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe (SBIT) community members and staff participated in the Great ShakeOut Drill by practicing “Drop, Cover, and Hold” and walking their tsunami evacuation routes.

The Great ShakeOut is an international drill where people living in earthquake country around the world practice what they would do in a real earthquake and/or tsunami emergency. This year, over 58 million people participated in the ShakeOut worldwide, including ...

19
DEC

0

Photo story: Training future seafood farmers

September 22, 2025

For more than 20 years, Washington Sea Grant’s NOAA Science Camp has offered hands-on science-learning opportunities for middle and high school students. This year NOAA Science Camp looked a little different: find out more about this year’s aquaculture spin with the following photo story.

Find the original post on NOAA Fisheries.

By Megan Ewald, NOAA Fisheries

Embark on a visual voyage with 50 Seattle-area middle schoolers at the first-ever NOAA Aquaculture Science Camp.

Everyone in the aquaculture industry was once a ...

22
SEP

0

activities, aquaculture, farming, k-12, NOAA, science camp, shellfish, summer

WSG welcomes inaugural cohort of Coastal Resilience Fellows

September 17, 2025

Congratulations to our new WSG Coastal Resilience Fellows!

We are pleased to announce that recent graduates Anabel Baker, Elyse Kelsey, Madeleine Lucas and Rich Desanto have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant (WSG) Coastal Resilience Fellowship for 2025–2027.

This is the inaugural cohort of the new WSG Coastal Resilience Fellowship, a unique educational opportunity for early or shifting career professionals to provide additional capacity for coastal communities around coastal resilience. A two-year, paid fellowship ...

17
SEP

0

coastal resilience, fellows, fellowships, new

Three recent graduates selected for the 2025-2025 WSG Hershman Fellowship

September 2, 2025

Congratulations to our new WSG Hershman Fellows!

We are pleased to announce that recent graduates Delaney Cyphers, Cirque Gammelin, and Courtney Skalley have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship for 2025–2026. This fellowship places highly motivated, qualified individuals with marine and coastal host offices throughout Washington, providing fellows with a unique perspective on building marine policy and allowing them to share their academic expertise with the host offices.

This year’s host offices are ...

2
SEP

0

Tacoma SOTA Wins the 2025 Orca Bowl Competition

March 18, 2025

By Luciana Calle, WSG Science Communications Fellow

On March 1, Washington Sea Grant (WSG) held the 2025 Orca Bowl Competition, Washington state’s regional National Ocean Sciences Bowl® (NOSB) event. This day-long event brings high school students from across Washington to compete in teams of four through a round-robin competition style followed by a double elimination round. Students tackle questions in all areas of marine studies, including ocean-related physics, chemistry, biology, geology, policy and technology, through ...

18
MAR

0

Meet Erick Dowell, 2025 WSG Keystone Fellow

February 3, 2025

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to announce that Erick Dowell, a recent graduate of the University of Washington’s School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, has been selected as the 2025 WSG Keystone Fellow. Erick will be working with host Puget Sound Restoration Fund.

The WSG Keystone Fellowship seeks to build pathways into marine science, policy and related industry careers for individuals from ...

3
FEB

0

Announcing the 8th Annual River & Ocean Film Festival in Forks

September 11, 2024

The event will be held October 18 at the Rainforest Arts Center

Forks, WA – The River & Ocean Film Festival returns October 18, 2024 to celebrate the freshwater and marine environments of the west side of the Olympic Peninsula — and the people who love them. Audiences will enjoy film explorations of Olympic Peninsula rivers and shores and learn about the issues facing its habitats and human communities.

After running annually ...

11
SEP

0

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 Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship for 2024–2025. This fellowship places highly motivated, qualified individuals with marine and coastal host offices throughout Washington, providing fellows with a unique perspective on building marine policy and allowing them to share ...

22
AUG

0

Meet Jezella Peraza, 2024 WSG Keystone Fellow

August 15, 2024

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to announce that Jezella Peraza, a recent graduate of the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, has been selected as the 2024 WSG Keystone Fellow. Jezella began working with host Seattle Aquarium August 1.

The WSG Keystone Fellowship seeks to build pathways into marine science, policy and related industry ...

15
AUG

0

WASI interns work with host businesses to prevent pollution

August 8, 2024

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited ...

8
AUG

0

Seven recent graduates selected for the 2023-2024 WSG Hershman Fellowship

October 24, 2023

Congratulations to our new WSG Hershman Fellows!

We are pleased to announce that recent graduates Catalina Burch, Hannah King, Noah Linck, Katie Love, Ellie Mason, Andrea Richter-Sanchez and Hannah Tennent have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship for 2023–2024. This fellowship places highly motivated, qualified individuals with marine and coastal host offices throughout Washington, providing fellows with a unique perspective on building marine policy and allowing them to share their academic expertise with the host ...

24
OCT

0

Three recent graduates announced as finalists for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

September 28, 2023

We are pleased to announce that three recent graduate students from universities in Washington and Idaho — Jillian Everly, Devon Lombard-Henley and Leslie (To-Nhu) Nguyen — were selected as finalists for the 2024 class of the prestigious John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program.

Since 1979, the National Sea Grant College Program has provided one-year fellowships working within federal government offices in Washington, D.C. to over 1,600 early-career professionals. Legislative fellows typically spend their time ...

28
SEP

0

Summertime on the Salish Sea

September 18, 2023

A WSG fellow connects with the Puget Sound community over marine conservation at a low tide event hosted by NOAA Science Camp

By Katalin Plummer, WSG Science Communications Fellow

Summertime in the Seattle area is nothing like the eastern Oregon summers of my childhood. To me, summer means day after stifling day with temperatures of over 100°F across the desert steppes, but with Puget Sound moderating the temperature, getting outside here for summer fun is easy. ...

18
SEP

0

Two UW graduate students selected for the 2023 NMFS–Sea Grant Joint Fellowship

August 15, 2023

We are pleased to announce that two University of Washington (UW) graduate students, Zoe Rand and Anna Simeon, have been selected for the 2023 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship in population and ecosystem dynamics.

Since 1999, the NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship program has trained the next generation of specialized experts in fisheries management. The program addresses the critical need for future fisheries scientists with expertise in stock ...

15
AUG

0

Page 1 of 4 12 3 4