Shannon Point Marine Center

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�� Part of Research Group Awarded New $5 Million Grant to Study the Gulf of Alaska		2017-03-23
Western's Shannon Point Marine Center may add 4-year degree program	Western Washington University is looking to add a four-year degree program that would bring more students to its Shannon Point Marine Center in Anacortes. The marine, coastal and watershed sciences program would be a hands-on, interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering and math (…	2017-02-22
Program brings together science, art	While Olive, 6, colored in the purple of the sea star, Andrew Fisher, 6, perfected the spikes on the sea cucumber and Cynthia Zimmerman, 8, chose the right colors for the shell of a different creature. “I like seeing all the beautiful colors and stuff,” Olive said. ��…	2016-10-19
Western Washington University Youth Programs to Offer Anacortes Early Release Program This Fall		2016-09-20
In the increasingly damaged sea, one animal is thriving	Marine biologist Jenny Purcell is a research associate at Western Washington University in Bellingham. She studies huge aggregations, or smacks, of moon jellyfish that have exploded in Puget Sound.	2016-08-09
Salish Sealife program combines learning and fun	Western Washington University and the Anacortes School District held a summer program this month for children ranging from fourth to ninth grades to learn about sea life at Shannon Point Marine Center. Program instructor Scott Butterworth said the kids were conducting their own experiments and…	2016-07-27
Stop sign now installed near Shannon Point Marine Center		2016-07-05
College students, citizen scientists survey area beaches for debris	A group canvassed parts of a beach near Cap Sante Marina last week. While some walked slowly back and forth with their heads down, looking for out-of-place items, others sat in groups with buckets and strainers, sifting sand as if panning for gold. “We’re picking up anything on the…	2016-06-03
Photos: Rep. Rick Larsen visits Shannon Point		2016-05-05
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. “I did this…	2016-03-16

�� Part of Research Group Awarded New $5 Million Grant to Study the Gulf of Alaska

2017-03-23

Western's Shannon Point Marine Center may add 4-year degree program

Western Washington University is looking to add a four-year degree program that would bring more students to its Shannon Point Marine Center in Anacortes.

The marine, coastal and watershed sciences program would be a hands-on, interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering and math (…

2017-02-22

Program brings together science, art

While Olive, 6, colored in the purple of the sea star, Andrew Fisher, 6, perfected the spikes on the sea cucumber and Cynthia Zimmerman, 8, chose the right colors for the shell of a different creature.

“I like seeing all the beautiful colors and stuff,” Olive said.

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2016-10-19

Western Washington University Youth Programs to Offer Anacortes Early Release Program This Fall

2016-09-20

In the increasingly damaged sea, one animal is thriving

Marine biologist Jenny Purcell is a research associate at Western Washington University in Bellingham. She studies huge aggregations, or smacks, of moon jellyfish that have exploded in Puget Sound.

2016-08-09

Salish Sealife program combines learning and fun

Western Washington University and the Anacortes School District held a summer program this month for children ranging from fourth to ninth grades to learn about sea life at Shannon Point Marine Center. Program instructor Scott Butterworth said the kids were conducting their own experiments and…

2016-07-27

Stop sign now installed near Shannon Point Marine Center

2016-07-05

College students, citizen scientists survey area beaches for debris

A group canvassed parts of a beach near Cap Sante Marina last week.

While some walked slowly back and forth with their heads down, looking for out-of-place items, others sat in groups with buckets and strainers, sifting sand as if panning for gold.

“We’re picking up anything on the…

2016-06-03

Photos: Rep. Rick Larsen visits Shannon Point

2016-05-05

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.

“I did this…

2016-03-16

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