by WSG Crab Team | Feb 26, 2025 | Community Science, Team News
From humble beginnings spent daydreaming in 2014, from the first trap in the water in 2015, to a network of 307 active monitors across 68 sites: in 2024, Crab Team celebrated a decade of trudging around in the mud and counting crabs! A total of 770 monitors and 37,000...
by WSG Crab Team | May 23, 2024 | Team News
Zach in the marsh at Plum Island Estuary after completing vegetation extent mapping fieldwork. Photo: Zach Bengtsson This winter, WSG Crab Team was joined by a second graduate student assistant, Zach Bengtsson. Zach is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at UW’s School of...
by WSG Crab Team | Sep 20, 2023 | Team News
APECS Lab 2022 Field Team setting a beach seine net from a boat in Southeast Alaska. Photo: Elyse Kelsey Hello WSG Crab Team Community! My name is Elyse Kelsey and I am thrilled to be joining Crab Team as a Student Assistant. I just missed the field season this year...
by WSG Crab Team | May 1, 2023 | Community Science, Team News
WSG and WSU Extension have teamed up to launch a new volunteer-based early detection program to complement the existing Crab Team monitoring network—introducing, Molt Search. Building on Early Detection Success Molt search builds on the hard work of Crab Team monitors...
by WSG Crab Team | Mar 13, 2023 | Community Science, Monitor Resources, Team News
Crabbers from the kick off team at Penn Cove in 2015. Most of the team members featured are still in the mud every month with Crab Team! Crab Team has come a long way since a handful of intrepid early-adopter volunteers put their boots in the mud for our pilot season...
by WSG Crab Team | Feb 9, 2023 | Team News
A mid-commute moment of zen at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Photo: Lisa Watkins Hello Crab Team community! My name is Lisa Watkins and I’m thrilled to be joining you all as Washington Sea Grant’s new Community Science Specialist. A large part of my role will be...
