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During the summer of 2025, members of the Wood Lab travelled to Albuquerque, New Mexico to work with Drs.Tom Turner and Sara Brant from University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology to quant...

The School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences is offering a new degree starting this year — a bachelor of science in aquatic conservation and ecology (ACE). The new major focuses on the ecology of aquati...

University of Washington researchers found, in historical whaling data, that longer baleen whale mothers were more likely to birth female calves than males. These results run contrary to a leading...

Latino Conservation Week, an initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation launched in 2014, supports the Latino community getting into the outdoors and participating in activities to protect our natural r...

A pod of orcas were spotted in Vancouver harbour near the SeaBus ferry terminal in North Vancouver

Join the 2025 Larkin Award winner as he reflects on 50 years of salmon science and shares insights into the future of these remarkable fish

Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthesizing organism in the ocean, might be more vulnerable to climate change than researchers thought. Population decline could weaken the foundation of...

Students’ robot aims to streamline marine research and aid the recovery of underwater ecosystems impacted by climate change.

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For almost a decade, the Washington Sea Grant Crab Team has been surveilling the advance of the invasive European green crab. In 2015, the team was formed to engage citizen scientists in a search for ...

Crab Team members maintain a massive surveillance program to track the population’s advance, while researchers probe the inner workings of the invasive species.

Fullbright Scholar, Science contributor, freshwater biologist. These are some of the ways to describe Aashna Sharma, who is currently working with Dr. Julian Olden at SAFS as part of her two-year post...

When ​I ​had ​a ​sabbatical, ​which ​I’m ​very ​fortunate ​to ​have ​every ​now ​and ​again, ​certainly ​makes …

Students’ robot aims to streamline marine research and aid the recovery of underwater ecosystems impacted by climate change.

An international research effort, including scientists from the University of Washington, has finally revealed the cause of sea star wasting disease: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.

After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.

A new story in the Seattle Times shows just how alive the Seattle waterfront is, if you know where to look. From baby salmon to bull kelp, the renovations at the waterfront include a seawall where the...

The Ocean Technologist will play a crucial role in supporting the BMSC’s mission by maintaining research equipment, laboratories, and oceanographic instruments.

Above the rebuilt Seattle seawall, people walk, bike, sit, chat, read and generally carry on. But come with us for a dip below.

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches.

Above the rebuilt Seattle seawall, people walk, bike, sit, chat, read and generally carry on. But come with us for a dip below.

We’re living in a digital age, where the ability to find information (or even at times misinformation) is instant wherever you are in the world. This comes at the same time we’re at a critical junctur...