We’re hiring! Part-time admin assistant for our downtown #Anchorage office, to perform general office management as well as procurement, fiscal administration, and event planning support.
https://careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/523819/administrative-assistant

👀Our colleagues @NOAAFisheriesAK are using 3-D cameras to collect data from Alaska's vast deep seas to help maintain productive, climate-resilient fisheries, coastal communities and healthy marine ecosystems. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/developing-3d-stereo-camera-technology-support-sustainable-fisheries

Scientists need more data about Alaska waters. Southeast Alaska’s trollers can provide observations otherwise requiring millions more in funding. The Alaska Trollers Association with help from Alaska Sea Grant is working to develop that partnership. https://alaskaseagrant.org/2023/02/27/fishermen-projects-increase-understanding-of-southeast-alaska-ecosystem/

Seafood technology specialist Chris Sannito led a smoked seafood workshop for #Kodiak High School students and teachers that included an introduction to seafood science and safety. Another will be held in May for Kodiak Island Borough residents. https://alaskaseagrant.org/2023/02/14/kodiak-high-school-students-learn-seafood-smoking-and-safety/

For three days in November, students from Nome-Beltz High School learned about ocean algae, especially about toxin producing species that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) in humans and marine wildlife. https://alaskaseagrant.org/2023/01/26/high-school-students-learn-about-harmful-algae-in-western-alaska/

If you've been following our efforts helping Southeast Alaska communities respond to drought and other extreme weather events, you might want to register for tomorrow’s ACCAP webinar with Rick Thoman @AlaskaWx, and Andrew Hoell of @NOAA_ESRL https://uaf-accap.org/event/se-alaska-drought/

Learn about the emergence of harmful algal bloom events in the Bering Strait region, a new climate change-related health challenge resulting from warmer waters at the intersection of the Bering and Chukchi seas. https://www.nortonsoundhealth.org/region-anxiously-awaits-algal-bloom-test-results/