Observations by trevorabranch

Very clear signs of starfish wasting disease: clear loss of hydrostatic pressure (random people looking at it could see it was dead/dying), big white lesion on one leg, although all legs intact.
First evidence I've seen for SWD in Edmonds but haven't explored a spring low tide. This was at 1pm at the lowest point of a -1 tide.
Lots of other Pisaster were still OK, except for one under Bracket's Landing (see other observation), but the Pycnogonus was absent.
I am a professor of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at the University of Washington and resident of Edmonds.