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| After shocking die-off, Oregon sea stars stage an epic comeback | All good outbreaks run their course. A community perishes or perseveres. And purple sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) off the Oregon coast have picked survival. They’re mounting an epic comeback, after a sea-star wasting disease decimated the marine animals in 2014. It’s no secret that鈥 |
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| Starfish Are Still Dying, But Here's Reason for Hope | It's been three years since millions of sea stars from Alaska to Canada and down to Baja, Mexico started wasting away into gooey white mounds. And although the destruction wrought by this disease shows no signs of stopping, the pace of the die-off has slowed. That's partly because so鈥 |
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| National Geographic features Western research | |||
| Scientists say climate change means sicker world for sea life | The shellfish pathogen that hit California鈥檚 Channel Islands in the 1980s began to quickly kill one of the tideland鈥檚 most important animals 鈥 black abalone. |
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| Peninsula volunteers pitching in on sea star wasting disease research | The efforts of volunteers across the North Olympic Peninsula have been vital in recent months as scientists work to uncover the secrets of a mysterious affliction eating its way through sea star populations up and down the West Coast. 鈥淐itizen scientists鈥 have braved slippery rocks along鈥 |
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| Free summer programs at Padilla Bay nature center | Many openings remain for free summertime programs and classes for all ages at the Breazeale Interpretive Center, part of the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in coastal Skagit County. |
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| Scientists search for clues in sea star die-off | In their waterproof orange overalls, Hannah Perlkin and Emily Tucker look like commercial fishermen or storm-ready sailors. But they are biologists on their way to tide pools along a remote stretch of northern California coast. There they are searching for the cause of a mysterious and鈥 |
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| Professor studies disease decimating local sea stars | |||
| Student from Black Diamond to assist with Sea Star study | From Alaska to Southern California, something is killing the West Coast鈥檚 sea stars 颅鈥 the ubiquitous, child-friendly favorite of tide-pool explorers everywhere 鈥撀 and nobody knows why. Yet. Benjamin Miner, as associate professor of Biology at Western Washington University, has鈥 |
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| Wizards At Western: 'Creatures of the Salish Sea' |