students – Alaska Sea Grant

Lessons from Newtok

By Tom Moran | June 19, 2026

Two young Alaska Native women hold up a stained glass window. The window is made of around a dozen pieces of stained glass in blues and greens, some of which incorporate faint images and writing.

Towns don’t get much more different than Newtok, Alaska, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. But the recently relocated Yup’ik village near the Bering Sea coast and the resort town on the tip…

Fellowship spotlight: Rachel French

By Kyle Kolda | May 28, 2026

A young woman wearing a winter cap and life jacket smiling at camera while holding up a piece of kelp. Blue sky is behind her.

For the past two years, Rachel French has supported Alaska’s growing kelp and oyster industry as an Alaska Sea Grant State Fellow with the mariculture team. She updated key oyster and kelp farming resources to strengthen connections to promote sustainable practices.

Alaska Sea Grant announces research awards

By Alaska Sea Grant | May 26, 2026

A woman stands on the deck of a boat holding a crossbow. She smiles at the camera. She has an infant strapped to her chest. In the distance is a whale fluke.

Alaska Sea Grant’s latest round of research projects stretch across the state of Alaska and the scale of life on earth. The five projects selected to receive Alaska Sea Grant…

Alaska Sea Grant announces 2026 Community-Engaged Fellows

By Alaska Sea Grant | May 14, 2026

A young woman in a lab coat and goggles hovers her hand above a water pitcher in a laboratory.

Six undergraduate students will get a leg up in their careers this summer while helping Alaska’s coastal communities through Alaska Sea Grant’s Community-Engaged Fellowship program. The fellows will work on…

Old Harbor studies the old ways

By Kyle Kolda | April 21, 2026

A teenage girl in orange overalls and a black T-shirt leans over a hole in the dirt with a trowel. Beside her, another teenage girl in a maroon hoodie and blue pants crouches over the hole, also holding a trowel.

Old Harbor is turning to its past to plot out its future. With support from Alaska Sea Grant, a group of researchers are partnering with the Alutiiq Tribe of Old…

Alaska Sea Grant well-represented at symposium

By Kyle Kolda | March 3, 2026

A young woman in casual dress stands smiling next to a scientific poster.

Contributions by Alaska Sea Grant students and researchers at this year’s Alaska Marine Science Symposium were all over the food web. Their presentations focused on marine fauna ranging from humpback…

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…

Social science students experience East Greenland

By Alaska Sea Grant | November 12, 2025

A group photo of college-age students and older adults in two rows wearing matching black shirts. Behind them is a small village of colorful Nordic cabins perched on rocky tundra. Dramatic mountains rise in the background beneath a cloudy sky.

A dozen social science students from three nations learned firsthand about the people and places of East Greenland through a summer field school co-led by Alaska Sea Grant faculty Davin…

Combining local knowledge and new technology to study spotted seals

By Kyle Kolda | October 20, 2025

Distant nadir view of 11 spotted seals resting on a sand spit surrounded by crashing waves.

Spotted seals are a vital part of Alaska’s Arctic marine ecosystems and a crucial resource for many coastal Iñupiaq communities. Yet despite their cultural and ecological significance, these elusive marine…

Community-Engaged Fellowship spotlight: Alex Devon

By Alaska Sea Grant | October 3, 2025

woman with long hair and wearing glasses smiling at camera

For Alex Devon, food sovereignty in rural Alaska is more than a passing interest; it’s a focus of her career path and research. Through this summer’s Alaska Sea Grant Community-Engaged…