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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Fungus-based Styrofoam substitute to ship fish
A biologist and an engineer based in Anchorage have developed a substitute insulator made with biodegradable mushroom tissue. This week, Alaska Sea Grant was helping to measure the material’s thermal properties at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center.
Read MoreKFSK: As a deadly bat disease spreads, volunteers gather data on Southeast populations
Residents in Petersburg and several other Southeast communities, including Alaska Sea Grant’s Marine Advisory agent Sunny Rice, are taking a tally of the region’s suffering bat population.
Read MoreADN: Eating shellfish you’ve harvested yourself is risky – and can be deadly
In Southeast Alaska this summer, researchers have seen extremely high levels of toxins in mussels and clams, prompting state health officials to warn that harvesting and eating shellfish is risky. Alaska Sea Grant’s Ginny Eckert helps explain what is causing this danger.
Read MoreKNOM: From krill to whales, marine life is washing up dead in the Bering Strait
Throughout the month of June, dead marine life was being reported on a weekly basis in the Bering Strait region, and Alaska Sea Grant’s regional Marine Advisory agent responded.
Read MoreSitNews: Southeast Alaska tribal council develops climate change plan
Plants and animals important for subsistence, cash and culture are at risk, according to a new report from Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Alaska Sea Grant is one of the organizations that assisted with the report.
Read MoreKXDF TV: Cordova residents worry about impacts of budget cuts on community
In Cordova, residents hope they can maintain their Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program agent.
Read MoreCordova Times: Future of MAP in Cordova in jeopardy
Cordova’s MAP program is in danger of extinction, and with money being carved away overall, the future of the statewide program could be in jeopardy.
Read MoreKNOM: Unusual ice seal deaths reported in Western Alaska; NOAA investigating
According to Gay Sheffield with Alaska Sea Grant, last month, 12 dead ringed seals were found in Nome alone.
Read MoreKDLG: Study on Iliamna Lake seal teeth adds to debate on conservation status
The elusive seals that reside in Bristol Bay’s Iliamna Lake have long been a mystery. While wildlife managers treat them the same as marine harbor seals, a new Alaska Sea Grant-funded study supports what traditional knowledge has long held – that they are a distinct, freshwater population.
Read MoreKNOM: Fukushima Radiation Is Present in Bering Sea, Researchers Say — But No Cause for Concern
Several years after a Fukushima nuclear power plant was damaged, Gay Sheffield, with Alaska Sea Grant, says St. Lawrence Island residents started sending her water samples.
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