Washington Sea Grant’s ocean acidification expert, Meg Chadsey, worked with the East Coast-based nonprofit to identify local high schools and youth programs that focus on this issue in the classroom or through field experiences.

“EarthEcho wanted to focus on youth who are engaged in ocean acidification, are affected by it in some way and want to do something about it,” Chadsey said. “Some of them are students I’ve helped train to monitor the changing chemistry of Puget Sound.”

The Cousteau team spent Monday and Tuesday on the Olympic Peninsula with members of the Makah and Suquamish tribes, learning about a citizen science water-quality monitoring program, and catching and preparing salmon using traditional methods. On Wednesday they will visit Bainbridge Island’s Eagle Harbor High School, where students are working with Washington Sea Grant and the Puget Sound Restoration Fund to come up with their own questions about ocean acidification and design a monitoring program to address them.