Posts Tagged ‘Bering Strait’
Faces of Alaska Sea Grant: Gay Sheffield
Gay Sheffield is Alaska Sea Grant’s Marine Advisory Program Agent for the Bering Strait region, based in Nome. Gay works alongside the people and communities of Western Alaska to share knowledge, connect people and research, and support the region’s marine ecosystems, wildlife, food security and way of life. Learn more about her in this video.
Read MoreStraightening up the Bering Strait
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…
Read MoreHooking Nome students on HAB research
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…
Read MoreBering Strait regional science series reaches a milestone
Last month, the Strait Science lecture series had its 100th recorded presentation added to the Alaska Sea Grant channel on YouTube. Strait Science is a long-running public science seminar series…
Read MoreHigh school students learn about harmful algae in western Alaska
For three days in November, students from Nome-Beltz High School learned about ocean algae, especially about toxin producing species that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) in humans and marine wildlife.…
Read MoreNorthern Bering Sea and Bering Strait ecosystem update
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…
Read MoreKNOM: From krill to whales, marine life is washing up dead in the Bering Strait
Throughout the month of June, dead marine life was being reported on a weekly basis in the Bering Strait region, and Alaska Sea Grant’s regional Marine Advisory agent responded.
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