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KNOM radio: Rick Thoman Gives a Sea Ice Report
Rick Thoman of the UAF Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy gave a special “Strait Science” presentation in Nome on Thursday, part of a series organized by Alaska Sea Grant.
Read MoreNome Nugget: Northwest Campus dedication commemorates buildings programs
Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory agent Gay Sheffield spoke on the importance of science at the Northwest Campus and the capacity to support research.
Read MoreLearning from a master smoker
The two-day Smoked Seafood School, run by Alaska Sea Grant and the Manufacturing Alaska Extension Partnership, is taught by seafood technology specialist Chris Sannito.
Read MoreKodiak Daily Mirror: First-time author set to present book tonight
Alaska Sea Grant’s Marylin Sigman will be presenting her first book, “Entangled, People and Ecological Change in Kachemak Bay” at the Kodiak Public Library.
Read MoreArctic Today: With erosion threatening its shoreline, Utqiagvik’s residents are stepping up as citizen scientists
A project in Utqiagvik funded by Alaska Sea Grant is focusing on key areas where infrastructure is vulnerable, and will help local people plan ways to mitigate climate change effects and adapt to new realities.
Read MoreKMXT: Kodiak tribal groups take stock of popular subsistence resource
Shellfish are a popular subsistence food on the island, and groups are surveying the density of the local resource. There’s no regular on-site testing of PSP because shellfish harvest on Kodiak beaches is subsistence, but Alaska Sea Grant is working with NOAA to develop a new instrument for monitoring PSP.
Read MoreKTUU: Researchers work to pinpoint cause of seabird die-off in Bering Sea
Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield is part of a group trying to understand why 1,400 seabirds have been found dead around the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas.
Read MoreKMXT: Graduate student experiments with extending shelf life and safety of cooked crab
An Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute and Sea Grant graduate student intern is looking at how to extend the shelf life of cooked Dungeness crab and make it safer to eat.
Read MoreKTVA: Harvesting Alaska—New research could change seaweed rules
A Sea Grant-funded graduate student is seeing if seaweed can be sustainably harvested Cook Inlet.
Read MoreEye on the Arctic: Communities wrestle with shark-bite mystery off Alaskan coast
Gay Sheffield says that the environmental knowledge of Alaska’s subsistence harvesters goes back for generations, so when they see something and are concerned enough to report it, it’s a big…
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