Alaska Sea Grant

Invasive European green crabs continue their advance

By Alaska Sea Grant | June 25, 2026

A person holds a European green crab. The crab is distinguished by its five spines on either side of the eyes and three bumps between the eyes.

European green crabs are on the move in Southeast Alaska, so keep your eyes out for this invasive species and its distinctive ‘5-3-5’ carapace. According to the Alaska Department of…

Fellowship spotlight: Aubrey Taradash

By Alaska Sea Grant | June 17, 2026

Aubrey Taradash is an Alaska Sea Grant State Fellow working with both the Alaska Center for Marine Debris and the Marine Debris Foundation. Taradash’s work helps advance cleanup efforts and foster new technologies to reduce and remove marine debris across Alaska. Hear from Aubrey in this video short.

Arctic Research Open House booth bags a crowd

By Alaska Sea Grant | May 27, 2026

A woman in a pink hat stands by a table squeezing an ink tube. The table is covered with seven colorful trays of ink, each with a little roller.

Visitors to Alaska Sea Grant’s booth at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Arctic Research Open House were left holding the bag. Attendees at the May 14 event block-printed images…

Alaska Sea Grant announces research awards

By Alaska Sea Grant | May 26, 2026

A woman stands on the deck of a boat holding a crossbow. She smiles at the camera. She has an infant strapped to her chest. In the distance is a whale fluke.

Alaska Sea Grant’s latest round of research projects stretch across the state of Alaska and the scale of life on earth. The five projects selected to receive Alaska Sea Grant…

Alaska Sea Grant announces 2026 Community-Engaged Fellows

By Alaska Sea Grant | May 14, 2026

A young woman in a lab coat and goggles hovers her hand above a water pitcher in a laboratory.

Six undergraduate students will get a leg up in their careers this summer while helping Alaska’s coastal communities through Alaska Sea Grant’s Community-Engaged Fellowship program. The fellows will work on…

Alaska Sea Grant at ComFish

By Alaska Sea Grant | May 5, 2026

Two men stand over a rope and tie orange floats to it with blue rope.

Kodiak fishermen brought their A-game to the city harbor last month for a timed skills competition. A dozen local fishers took part in the friendly contest, organized by Alaska Sea…

Wakefield Symposium coming to Kodiak

By Alaska Sea Grant | January 7, 2026

Heatwaves will be a hot topic at next year’s Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium. The theme for the event, to be held May 5–8, 2026, at the Kodiak Marketplace event space,…

Kotlik project works to clean up and reduce marine waste

By Alaska Sea Grant | November 24, 2025

Six workers in white hazmat gear and orange life jackets stand on the shore of a river. Several of the people are picking up trash. Debris litters the shore, including several large logs, pieces of waterlogged wood, and a large wooden platform. The shore is covered in tall grass and in the distance are the small houses and public buildings of the village of Kotlik.

Aubrey Taradash and Tom Moran contributed to this story. An old tarp or battery is generally not considered a prize haul. But such was the case in Kotlik, where a…

Remembering Gary Freitag

By Alaska Sea Grant | November 19, 2025

A head shot of a smiling Gary Freitag. He is in front of water and trees and wears an orange Sea Grant hat and an orange lifejacket.

Alaska Sea Grant is deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague, Gary Freitag. Gary spent 13 fruitful years at Alaska Sea Grant as the Marine Advisory Program…

Oyster farmers learn the trade at Prince of Wales workshop

By Alaska Sea Grant | November 18, 2025

Participants in a workshop stand on docks of an oyster farm listening to an instructor. They stand next to oyster sorting equipment and boats, surrounded by calm water and forested hills under a bright blue sky.

For three days in September, the future of Alaskan oyster farming got to learn some lessons from its present. The Alaska Sea Grant Oyster Farming Operations Workshop gave six farmers…