Bering Sea – Alaska Sea Grant

Straightening up the Bering Strait

By Aubrey Taradash | March 10, 2026

A man adjusts a rusty metal barrel on an ATV trailer. The vehicle sits on a beach with driftwood in the background.

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…

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…

Northern Bering Sea and Bering Strait ecosystem update

By Dave Partee | October 1, 2019

A University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences seminar will be held on Wed. Oct. 2, 3:30 pm in 201 O’Neill Bldg (Fairbanks) and will be broadcast…

Local and traditional knowledge included in Bering Sea management plan

By Lauren Cuddihy | July 1, 2019

a beach with seals, and buildings of a small community in the background

With assistance from Alaska Sea Grant, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council recently adopted what some are calling a groundbreaking ecosystem management plan for the Bering Sea that incorporates local…

Sheffield, Ahmasuk honored for seabird mortality response

By Lauren Cuddihy | June 3, 2019

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has honored Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield and Brandon Ahmasuk of Kawerak, Inc. for leading a coordinated response to seabird mortality events across the…

“We have never been here before” — Gay Sheffield, on ecosystem-wide changes in the Bering Sea

By Paula Dobbyn | November 29, 2018

The Bering Sea is undergoing massive changes that include the dramatic loss of sea ice last winter. As Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory agent Gay Sheffield notes in the interview…

KTUU: Researchers work to pinpoint cause of seabird die-off in Bering Sea

By Alaska Sea Grant | August 13, 2018

Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield is part of a group trying to understand why 1,400 seabirds have been found dead around the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas.

Terry Johnson

By Dave Partee | October 24, 2017

Terry JohnsonMarine Recreation & Tourism Specialist Terry retired from the University of Alaska in 2017. Terry Johnson Remembering Terry Johnson Focus Marine recreation and tourism Commercial fisheries Pacific Rim fisheries…

Strait Science: Researcher makes connection between wind and whales

By Paula Dobbyn | October 5, 2017

Dr. Carin Ashljan, scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, spoke in Nome about her 11-year project looking at the bowhead feeding zones near Utqiagvik as part of the Strait Science lecture series hosted by UAF and Alaska Sea Grant.