New staff: WSG welcomes Aina Hori
Alison Lorenz
February 12, 2026 WSG is excited to welcome Aina Hori as the new WSG Crab Team Outreach Specialist! Aina will coordinate WSG Crab Team’s long-term monitoring network, working to improve our understanding of native salt marsh and pocket estuary organisms and support early detection of European green crab across Washington state. Prior to joining WSG, Aina was a 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellow with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Environmental Satellite, Data, and Inf