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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,…

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.…