education – Alaska Sea Grant

Sharing science across Alaska

By Tom Moran | March 18, 2026

A montage of posters advertising public lectures on science topics.

What do walrus monitoring, the Tracy Arm tsunami and salmon bycatch have in common? All of them are important topics for audiences in Alaska’s coastal communities. Which is why each…

Hooking Nome students on HAB research

By Tom Moran | February 9, 2026

A high school student in a brown parka and black pants holds a small fish in his hand and smiles broadly. He sits on the ice with his other hand holding a stick with a line running into the hole. Beside him are a clipboard and a bucket.

Ice fishing is not the most common method of data collection. But for students at Nome-Beltz High School, a couple of afternoons in December spent jigging for tomcod was a…

Remembering Gary Freitag

By Alaska Sea Grant | November 19, 2025

A head shot of a smiling Gary Freitag. He is in front of water and trees and wears an orange Sea Grant hat and an orange lifejacket.

Alaska Sea Grant is deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague, Gary Freitag. Gary spent 13 fruitful years at Alaska Sea Grant as the Marine Advisory Program…

Community-Engaged Fellowship spotlight: Dawn Smith

By Alaska Sea Grant | November 6, 2025

A group of students and mentors from Alaska Sea Grant’s Coastal Connections Camp stand on a bridge with trees, a river, and forested mountains in the background. They are smiling and posing together during an outdoor field activity.

Dawn Smith spent her summer leading a coastal science camp and developing educational resources as part of the Alaska Sea Grant Community-Engaged Fellowship program. Her work centered in Whittier, Alaska,…

New Alaska Waters website unveiled

By Alaska Sea Grant | August 27, 2025

Alaska Sea Grant has long provided access to quality online education resources to engage and inspire Alaskan youth to connect with marine and watershed ecosystems. Our updated website, Alaska Waters,…

Youth camp expands across coastal Alaska

By Alaska Sea Grant | August 22, 2025

Group of middle-school students posing and smiling for camera in a forest surrounded by large trees with moss, ferns and other bushes. They are all growling or have their hands up like a bear.

Now in its fourth summer, the Coastal Connection Camp program is serving more students and communities in the Gulf of Alaska region than ever before, offering hands-on activities involving science,…

Fellowship spotlight: Rachel French

By Alice van Veenendaal | June 9, 2025

Mariculture, the farming of seaweed and shellfish, has steadily grown in Alaska from a few operations in the 1970s to more than 60 farms today. These farms each support a…

Bringing knowledge bearers, scientists, and educators together

By Leigh Lubin | April 17, 2025

Three people standing on a shoreline with back towards camera. There is grass and dandelions in foreground and water and tree covered mountains in background.

The Community Organized Restoration and Learning network (CORaL) is excited to kick off the Alaska Knowledge, Science, and Education Alliance (AKSEA) this fall. AKSEA aims to foster connections across the…

Youth nature camp program continues growth

By Alaska Sea Grant | August 21, 2024

Students smiling and climbing a tree in the forest.

Now in its third year, the Coastal Connection Camps program offers educational summer activities for middle school youth in Valdez and Seward, while training teachers and leaders to conduct these…

Petersburg youth dive into science by building ROVs

By Kate Barber | March 14, 2024

One male and one female middle school students crouched down by the edge of the pool, looking at a white pvc pipe ROV project with red foam on top.

Middle school students got an opportunity to engage directly in ocean science as they constructed remotely operated vehicles in February as part of a science class project in Southeast Alaska.…