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KDLG Radio: City council weighs options as rapid erosion threatens Dillingham sewer
Erosion is eating away the coastline by Dillingham’s sewage lagoon. The city council held a meeting with contract engineers to discuss options for the lagoon before it’s too late. Alaska Sea Grant’s Gabe Dunham has studied the coastline by the lagoon since 2016. In a project with Alaska Sea Grant, Dunham and three other scientists installed three transects, including a camera, to measure how much land is being lost.
Read MoreNome Nugget: Chances are, fall and winter will bring warmer and wetter days
Rick Thoman came to Nome to give different groups an idea of what to expect in weather this fall and winter.
He began with a recap of last spring and summer for the group attending the Strait Science session, a program sponsored by UAF Northwest Campus and Alaska Sea Grant.
Kodiak Daily Mirror: Kodiakans discuss future of sustainable energy
The two-day Adapt Kodiak workshop was organized by Alaska Sea Grant and funded by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the National Park Service and the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Initiative.
Read MoreCordova Times: Federal grant will aid Sitka Tribe toxin research
A collaborative project with the University of Washington Tacoma, NCCOS, the University of Alaska and Alaska Sea Grant aims to develop two lab-based quantitative molecular methods for detection and counting of Alexandrium catenella resting cysts in sediment from the Gulf of Maine, Washington (Puget Sound), and Alaska (Kodiak and Kachemak Bay). The project will develop a target-specific DNA probe for a fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) assay.
Read MoreCordova Times: Smoked seafood workshop on tap at Kodiak
Alaska Sea Grant’s annual smoked seafood workshop is set for Oct. 17-18 in Kodiak, with a focus on safe processing of locally caught chum and coho salmon and black cod.
Read MoreNYT Opinion: Where the sea ice recedes, so does an Alaska way of life
With climate change, animals that sustain Native hunters are disappearing, and harmful algae are contaminating waters. This opinion article was written by Gay Sheffield, Alaska Sea Grant marine advisory agent, Vera Trainer, president of the International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae, and Rick Thoman, climate expert at the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy.
Read MoreMail & Guardian: Mayhem as sea ice melts in heating world
The Bering Strait region may be primed for large-scale harmful algal blooms, experts said at a two-day Nome workshop organized by Alaska Sea Grant and the Alaska Ocean Observing System.
Read MoreNews-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.
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