Posts Tagged ‘Alaska Sea Grant State Fellowship’
Fellowship spotlight: Kyle Kolda
Kyle Kolda is an Alaska Sea Grant State Fellow working with Alaska Sea Grant’s communications team. Kyle helps share the work behind Alaska’s marine science by creating videos, writing research stories and highlighting the people and communities working to better understand and steward Alaska’s coastal ecosystems. Hear from Kyle in this video short.
Read MoreFellowship spotlight: Aubrey Taradash
Aubrey Taradash is an Alaska Sea Grant State Fellow working with both the Alaska Center for Marine Debris and the Marine Debris Foundation. Taradash’s work helps advance cleanup efforts and foster new technologies to reduce and remove marine debris across Alaska. Hear from Aubrey in this video short.
Read MoreFellowship spotlight: Rachel French
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.
Read MoreGetting the word out about clean harbors
Some things you just can’t accomplish over Zoom. Which is why Alaska Sea Grant State Fellow Pax Templeton is making sure to meet Alaska’s harbormasters and harbor staff in person.…
Read MoreFellowship spotlight: Alaina Plauché
Alaina Plauché is an Alaska Sea Grant State Fellow working as a fishery analyst with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in Anchorage. She began her fellowship in September 2024…
Read MoreAlaska Sea Grant State Fellows announced for 2025
A new class of 11 Alaska Sea Grant State Fellows is preparing to start work around the state, including at the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, Alaska Department of Fish and…
Read MoreFellowship spotlight: Devanie White
Alaska’s fisheries produce more than half of all seafood harvested in U.S. waters, with an annual wholesale value of nearly $4.5 billion. These fisheries are among the most sustainably managed…
Read MoreSeafood, sustainability and celebration in D.C.
For the 50th annual NOAA Sustainable Seafood Celebration this month, Alaska Sea Grant’s Chris Sannito and Rachel French traveled from Kodiak to the nation’s capitol to represent Alaska, preparing and…
Read MoreFellowship spotlight: Rachel French
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…
Read MoreFellowship spotlight: Mack Hughes
Data collected on intertidal communities and nearshore predators help track the health of Alaska’s marine ecosystems. Monitoring species such as sea stars, sea otters, shorebirds, and sea ducks also offers…
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