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| Audubon society gives conservation scholarships | BREE DAIGNEAULT, also a Coupeville High School graduate, is enrolled in marine biology and the honors in Distinguished Marine Scholars program at Western Washington University, with an emphasis on public relations/communications. Her high school鈥 |
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| Life on the half shell: Aquaculture dominates farming on Willapa Bay | On a blustery Thursday afternoon, Steve Shotwell and Tim Ritchey headed out to the farm. But instead of a harvester running through a field, Shotwell motored his custom-built, shallow-draft oyster boat out of the Bay Center Marina into the flats of Willapa Bay at high tide. 鈥淚 did this鈥 |
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| Sea star wasting disease starting to fade as scientists identify factors in mass die-off | The disease that killed millions of the once-ubiquitous sea stars seems to be fading. Marine biologists are zeroing in on the combined factors 鈥 including a rise in water temperature 鈥 that resulted in the devastation of the sea star population on the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to Alaska鈥 |
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| Mysterious epidemic devastates starfish population off the Pacific Coast | Something strange is happening in Seattle鈥檚 waters. Laura James was one of the first to notice. She alerted scientists when starfish began washing up on the shores near her home. |
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| Sunny fall weather invites outdoor study | |||
| Jan Holmes, beloved Beach Watcher and community volunteer, dies at 61 | |||
| Mariner senior studies marine life | While many teenagers enjoyed their summers cooling off at beaches, one Mariner High School student spent this past summer swimming alongside the creatures that live in those beaches. Brijonnay Madrigal, a senior at Mariner was selected for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric鈥 |
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| Top mentor is rewarded in more ways than one | 鈥淔or the first time in my life, I had support and was actually seen,鈥 Skyline High School graduate M鈥橩ayla said. |
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| artists' spaces | Jim, originally from Seattle, graduated with a degree in marine biology from Western Washington University and worked at the Navy鈥檚 arctic research lab in Barrow on contract. When he found he couldn鈥檛 move further up without getting another degree, he looked around or a career change. He liked鈥 |
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| Biology runs in the Truscott family | "There鈥檚 nothing like a great role model and a great environment to steer life鈥檚 direction. For Keith and Kirk Truscott, the role models were their dad, Don, and family friend Mike Erho. Eventually, Keith and Kirk became the role models for their own children. The perfect learning鈥 |