by Emily Grason | May 11, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
A river-otters eye view of the tranquil, reflective waters of Butterball cove. With such an adorable site name, it was perhaps no surprise that we got to see a couple of playful river otters scamper across the berm at Butterball Cove on the first day of sampling last...
by Emily Grason | May 11, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Creature Feature: Staghorn Sculpin One of our favorite fishes is the staghorn sculpin, (Leptocottus armatus – LEAR, to our volunteers). That turns out to be a good thing, because, after shore crabs, staghorn sculpins are the most abundant organism in our traps, so we...
by Emily Grason | May 11, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Green crabs: In hot water – and loving it! When they are young, green crabs, a bit like toddlers, can be very picky about their surroundings and their schedule, and you can just imagine the temper tantrums! Green crabs hatch out of eggs, and emerge into the world...
by Emily Grason | Mar 16, 2016 | Community Science
2015 was a pilot year for Crab Team monitoring. Here, in a series of two posts, Natalie White, an undergraduate in the UW Program on the Environment Capstone Program, will share the work she did to understand the volunteer experience during our pilot year. In a third...
by Emily Grason | Mar 16, 2016 | Community Science
2015 was a pilot year for Crab Team monitoring. This is the second of two post in which, Natalie White, an undergraduate in the UW Program on the Environment Capstone Program, shares her work to understand the volunteer experience during our pilot year. In...
