Shannon Point Marine Center
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| 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. A… |
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 | |
| Western Youth Programs to Offer Odyssey of Science & Arts Program in Anacortes April 4-8 | 2016-03-04 | ||
| 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 — including a rise in water temperature — that resulted in the devastation of the sea star population on the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to Alaska… |
2016-02-26 |