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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…
You can’t do much to stop a landslide. But in Petersburg, an Alaska Sea Grant-supported effort will help residents better understand which areas are most at risk. “We’ve seen a…
In a typical summer, Sitka fisherman Jacquie Foss and her family travel hundreds of miles around Southeast Alaska, averaging only eight miles an hour. While their profession affords them countless…
All photos by Jessica Whitney/Alaska Sea Grant Alaska’s enthusiasm for mariculture was evident at last month’s Mariculture Conference of Alaska. More than 300 people gathered in Anchorage for the three-day…
An Alaska Sea Grant partnership enabled a group of Alaska Natives to dip their proverbial toes into the mariculture industry. In February, Alaska Sea Grant collaborated with the Central Council…
One of the newest ideas in Alaska land management dates back millennia. At a recent gathering in Fairbanks, representatives of Indigenous organizations and communities in Alaska and Canada met to…
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…
The Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation (NSEDC) brings a lot to the Bering Strait region, including jobs, financial assistance, education and training. But equally noteworthy is what the corporation recently…
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…
Ex-typhoon Halong couldn’t have come at a worse time for residents of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta—or for their freezers. “It’s fall time when the storms usually hit,” explained Katie Basile, Alaska…