Posts by Alaska Sea Grant
News-Miner: UA partnership program with federal agency seeks to diversify marine workforce
A University of Alaska system partnership established this summer with NOAA aims to provide career opportunities to Alaska Native and rural Alaska students. The Partnership Education Program Alaska, or PEP Alaska, was developed by Alaska Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries.
Read MoreSeafoodNews: Alaska Sea Grant releases new handbook on avoiding boatyard hazards
Citing a rate of injury and illness on ships and in boatyards is more than double those of construction and general industry, Alaska Sea Grant has released an online booklet aimed at making boatyards safer.
Read MoreGlobal Ocean Acidification Research Starts at Local Level All Around the World
The Alaska Sea Grant program supports the research of University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor Amanda Kelley, a top researcher on ocean acidification’s effects in Alaska.
Read MoreChilkat Valley News: Local entrepreneur aims to start kelp farm
Demand for seaweed like kelp has grown over the past five decades, and mariculture produces more than 96 percent of the world’s supply of seaweed products, currently valued at $4-5 billion, according to a 2017 report from Alaska Sea Grant.
Read MoreCordova Times: CDFU scholarships send fledgling fishermen to college
An Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit $500 scholarship, established by the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, will help send recipients to a three-day crash course in fisheries management.
Read MoreNome Nugget: Forget the distribution charts—ask a fisherman
NOAA’s Dr. Lyle Britt came to Nome to share with the community his research on impacts of receding sea ice on marine ecosystems as part of the Strait Science series, sponsored by Alaska Sea Grant and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Read MoreJuneau Empire: Tlingit and Haida commissioned a climate change report for Southeast Alaska. Here’s what they found.
The Climate Change Adaptation Plan, published in May with help from Alaska Sea Grant and the University of Arizona Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, is a document showing what’s happening to Southeast Alaska and how the tribes in the region can handle it.
Read MoreArctic Sounder: Bering Sea is feeling the effects of warm winters
Communities around the Bering Sea are feeling the effects of recent warm winters. Biologists and others, including Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield, are working to understand the long-term consequences.
Read MoreNome Nugget: Biologists advise to use caution in shellfish consumption
Alaska Ocean Observing System, UAF Fairbanks and Alaska Sea Grant sponsored a community workshop on Harmful Algal Blooms—certain poisons coming from certain blooms of algae produced by phytoplankton. The group held a second workshop the next day for healthcare professionals.
Read MoreAPM: Low levels of algal toxins in northern Bering Sea of interest to scientists and residents
Julie Matweyou with Alaska Sea Grant in Kodiak said PSP has hindered the seafood industry in Alaska and cost the state money
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