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High school students learn about harmful algae in western Alaska

By Alaska Sea Grant | January 26, 2023
Student in a science lab holding a dropper and slide next to microscope. Teacher watching and holding bottle of seawater taken from Port of Nome.

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.…

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Tracking bird flu in Western Alaska

By Anne Gore | June 30, 2022
Dead gull on the beach.

The United States is in the midst of a bird flu outbreak first detected in December 2021. Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield has been closely monitoring the situation in the…

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Research investigates toxins in Arctic food webs and marine mammals

By Anne Gore | April 14, 2022
Walrus with tusks on a piece of ice in the ocean

A new bulletin published by Alaska Sea Grant summarizes research to inform the public and help them understand the risk of paralytic shellfish toxins in Arctic Alaska food webs and…

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Cause of seabird die-offs still unknown

By Anne Gore | September 17, 2021
Dead bird on beach.

For the fifth year in a row, Gay Sheffield has been investigating unusual seabird deaths in Western Alaska in collaboration with Bering Strait residents, Kawerak Inc., the U.S. Fish and…

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Improving sea ice forecasts for safer subsistence harvests

By Anne Gore | March 25, 2021
Closeup of Pacific walrus

Alaska Native people have lived along the coasts of the Chukchi and Bering seas in northwest Alaska for thousands of years. The rich bounty of the ocean, including marine mammals,…

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KNOM: Little known about algal toxins’ effects on subsistence in Arctic waters

By Alaska Sea Grant | December 20, 2019

Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield says two different samples of clams from that voyage were found to have high levels of an algal toxin called saxitoxin

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New York Times publishes op-ed, co-authored by Gay Sheffield, on how sea ice loss imperils life in Alaska

By Paula Dobbyn | September 25, 2019

The New York Times published a column by Vera Trainer, Rick Thoman and Gay Sheffield today about the dramatic extent of sea ice loss in Alaska and how it is…

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Sheffield, Ahmasuk honored for seabird mortality response

By Lauren Cuddihy | June 3, 2019

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has honored Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield and Brandon Ahmasuk of Kawerak, Inc. for leading a coordinated response to seabird mortality events across the…

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Carbon dioxide sample from Utqiaġvik provides wake-up call on climate

By Alaska Sea Grant | April 18, 2019

How does the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured at Hawai‘i’s Mauna Loa volcano over the last six decades compare with the air above Alaska? During a recent…

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Nome Nugget: Slight uptick in Cesium-137 heralds arrival Of Fukushima plume in Northern Bering Sea

By Alaska Sea Grant | March 13, 2019
rough ocean waters

After the 2011 tsunami that caused the destruction of a nuclear powerplant at Fukushima, Japan, Bering Sea coastal residents anticipated that some radiation would show up in the region. Now it has, but at levels that are well below concern.

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Alaska Sea Grant is headquartered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is part of a national network of Sea Grant programs administered by NOAA.

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VISION: Alaska will sustain its vibrant marine, coastal, and watershed ecosystems, with strong coastal communities and people who make decisions using science-based and traditional knowledge for the social and economic benefit of all Alaskans.

MISSION: To enhance the sustainable use and conservation of Alaska’s marine, coastal, and watershed resources through research, education, and extension.

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