Washington Sea Grant

May 4, 2026 Crab Team likes to shine a light on the creatures we encounter in our muddy environments, from the rare and far-out, to the common and familiar, each of the species in Washington estuaries plays a role in local ecology. They also have a story to tell when they appear in Crab Team monitoring traps. In September of 2025, two separate network monitoring sites in Grays Harbor both capture…

April 29, 2026 Hello Crab Team Community! I’m excited to be back with you all as the new Crab Team Outreach Specialist! I had the pleasure of meeting some of you and entering lots of your data during the 2022 and 2023 seasons when I was a student assistant. In my new role, I’m looking forward to reconnecting, meeting those I haven’t yet, and finally putting faces to all the familiar names. I’ll b…

April 29, 2026 By Alison Lorenz, Communications Project Coordinator When Rich Desanto applied for the new Washington Sea Grant (WSG) Coastal Resilience Fellowship, he was looking for a change. After nine years in Seattle, mostly spent in grad school and weathering the COVID-19 pandemic, Desanto was feeling priced out of the city and unsettled in his career in landscape architecture. He was alread…

April 23, 2026 Shellfish growers have long been stewards of Washington’s rich marine waters. After all, the industry as a whole relies on healthy marine ecosystems. So it probably comes as no surprise that shellfish growers have been partners in efforts to control invasive European green crab from the get-go. It has been routinely observed that green crab aggregate around aquaculture gear, partic…

April 14, 2026 By Alison Lorenz, WSG Communications Project Coordinator Almost ten years after the Washington State Coast Resilience Assessment pointed to a need for a unified, state-funded response to growing hazards on Washington’s coasts, the Coastal Hazards Organizational Resilience Team – or COHORT – is making its mark in coastal resilience by letting communities lead. The team recently publ…

March 31, 2026 My name is Seiler Grubb, I usually go by Sei, and I am very excited to work with Washington Sea Grant as an undergraduate Science Communications fellow for the spring of 2026. I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and always loved traveling to the coasts so I could be near an ocean. Fortunately, I got the opportunity to move to California in the fall of 2022. Shortly after, I worked w…

March 20, 2026 WSG is excited to share that PhD candidate Mariah Ricci is the first Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Fellow! As the ocean absorbs excess carbon dioxide from greenhouse gases, it becomes more acidic, causing harm to marine functions and ecosystems. Marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) describes the variety of technologies and approaches being explored to either remove carbon dioxide f…

March 11, 2026 Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is offering two basic Seafood Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) trainings at its Bendiksen Landing office in South Bend this spring. The trainings will be held in person March 26-27 and May 28-29. Federal law (21 CFR Part 123) requires establishments that process seafood to conduct a hazard analysis and, if a hazard is identified, develop and…

March 3, 2026 Washington Clean Marina is proud to announce Oak Harbor Marina’s renewal as a certified clean marina for another three-year period. The prestigious Clean Marina certification, a program administered by Washington Sea Grant (WSG), requires marinas to undergo a rigorous assessment of their environmental practices and plan improvements for the future. Located in the city of Oak Harbor …

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 wit…

February 11, 2026 Last December, as king tides pushed waves over Westport’s seawall and nudged seawater onto nearby roads, Washington Sea Grant (WSG) hosted a successful first Washington Fishermen’s Convention. The Washington Fishermen’s Convention aimed to celebrate and unify the state’s diverse fishing industry, gathering longtime, new and aspiring fishermen to network, share lessons learned, a…

January 26, 2026 Washington’s Pacific coast has a different European green crab history than the Salish Sea and faces different conditions, so here we share a summary of 2025 green crab status and trends focused on sites within coastal estuaries. This summary is based on data collected by all trapping groups working in this geography (see the footer for a list). Where they are found in Washington…

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 …

Created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and supported by Washington Sea Grant (WSG), the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) recently released flood hazard products for shorelines in King and Pierce Counties January 14, 2026 From flooding to eroding shorelines, extreme storms increase the hazards faced by coastal communities. Recognizing these threats, planners and managers aroun…