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WSG supports the rollout of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) in Washington state
From the Summer 2024 Sea Star
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer
The first time Ian Miller, Washington Sea Grant (WSG) coastal hazards specialist, heard about CoSMoS, he was in graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This was around 2009, when the first iteration of CoSMoS was being used to model coastal storms in southern California. While Miller was interested at the time, he ...
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Carrie Garrison-Laney’s research paints a fuller picture of Washington’s tsunami risk
From the Summer 2024 Sea Star
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer
The Big One. It’s the threat looming over all who live in western Washington and the greater Pacific Northwest: a magnitude 9 earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone. A quake from the fault line stretching from Vancouver Island to northern California could create the kind of devastating tsunami documented in Coast Salish Peoples’ stories 300 years ago. Now, ...
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WSG Crab Team’s new program makes it easy to get involved in invasive species response
From the Summer 2024 Sea Star
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer
When Lisa Watkins started at WSG as a community science specialist, WSG Crab Team was almost ten years old. The Crab Team monitoring network — a network of several hundred volunteers and partner staff spread all across the state — has spent that decade on the front lines of the European green crab (Carcinus ...
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WSG-funded research informs the future of eelgrass restoration in Washington
From the Summer 2024 Sea Star
By Erick Dowell, WSG student assistant
Beneath the coastal waters of Washington state, if you look in the right spots you’ll find green, grassy meadows. They are not too different from meadows you may want to frolic through on land, but down here the blades of grass undulate with salt water eddies and waves of the sea instead of a gentle summer breeze. Eelgrass (Zostera ...
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By incorporating people, culture and Indigenous knowledge systems, these three projects model the use of interdisciplinary approaches to inform marine resource management
By Olivia Horwedel, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Deep blue ocean waters push against rocky shorelines and coastal forests. Eagles soar overhead. In the distance, whales surface, taking a moment to breathe as they navigate through the ocean’s waters. This incredibly unique landscape, situated at the Northwest tip of Washington state, is the ...
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As dense aggregations of moon jellyfish form in Puget Sound, researchers study the ecosystem-wide impacts
By Andrea Richter-Sanchez, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Have you ever seen a jellyfish floating in Puget Sound? Chances are, it was a moon jellyfish. Moon jellies, or Aurelia labiata have had large blooms — high numbers in certain areas — in the past several years.
Moon jelly aggregations normally form in the summer in Puget ...
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The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s clam garden reclaims an ancient Indigenous practice on ancestral land
By Samantha Larson, WSG Science Writer
From one set of hands to another, each rock was passed down the human chain from the beach to the sea. Some of the rocks could be held in one palm and easily passed. Others were the size of small boulders, requiring strong posture and extra exertion to settle the rocks into their ...
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The second edition of this classic text is now in bookstores
Generations of oyster farmers have weathered many challenges to continue the harvest. Their stories are braided together with significant history that have defined the modern-day Pacific Northwest: the arrival of white ...
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From the Summer 2023 Sea Star
Having served as director of Washington Sea Grant since 2018, Callender retires in April 2023
“Ever since I was a teenager, my passion was for conservation,” says Russell Callender. He kept his love for preserving the environment close to heart throughout his career, which involved twists and turns from academic research to climbing the ranks of government, ...
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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
Aquaculture in the Salish Sea brings both benefits and challenges to coastal communities and ecosystems. The yellow aquaculture rope commonly used in shellfish farming is contributing to a key environmental issue facing the world today: plastics pollution. This issue is being addressed in a novel way by Nicole Baker, ...
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The Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group connects fisheries management scientists and resource managers, facilitating collaboration and information sharing
By Samantha Larson, WSG Science Writer
“Male Dungeness, 173, 1-2!” After calling out the specs, Emily Buckner — the program coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group (PCRG) — swiftly tosses the wriggling crab overboard and then reaches back into the pot to pull out another. Today, Buckner’s job entails going out with a small team on ...
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