About me
Emily Grason is a marine ecologist and Principal Arm Waver at Washington Sea Grant, in Seattle, WA. Since 2014, she has led Crab Team, a comprehensive program focused on supporting statewide efforts to manage the invasion of European green crab, one of the world’s most damaging invasive species. She helped launch Crab Team as a participatory science monitoring network for early detection of green crab, striking out into the mud with a few hundred volunteers and partner staff, and the program made the first detections of green crabs in Washington’s Salish Sea in 2016. Since that time, Crab Team has grown into a program that serves the broad needs of management, collaborating with hundreds of volunteers, scientists, staff at partner agencies and tribes, and shellfish growers to build technical capacity in the state and protect marine shorelines. Emily holds a master’s degree in Biology from Western Washington University and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Washington. She serves in the science seat of the Northwest Straits Commission, and on the Washington Green Crab Research Task Force.
