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AKSEA program fosters educational collaborations

By Tom Moran | June 22, 2026

A woman holds up a jellyfish made of purple and yellow construction paper.

When it comes to crafting educational resources, four heads are better than one. That’s the idea behind the Alaska Knowledge, Science, and Education Alliance (AKSEA), which just concluded its first…

Lessons from Newtok

By Tom Moran | June 19, 2026

Two young Alaska Native women hold up a stained glass window. The window is made of around a dozen pieces of stained glass in blues and greens, some of which incorporate faint images and writing.

Towns don’t get much more different than Newtok, Alaska, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. But the recently relocated Yup’ik village near the Bering Sea coast and the resort town on the tip…

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…

Remembering Gary Freitag

By Alaska Sea Grant | November 19, 2025

A head shot of a smiling Gary Freitag. He is in front of water and trees and wears an orange Sea Grant hat and an orange lifejacket.

Alaska Sea Grant is deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague, Gary Freitag. Gary spent 13 fruitful years at Alaska Sea Grant as the Marine Advisory Program…

National Seafood Month: The science of seafood

By Kyle Kolda | October 7, 2025

close-up view of several stripes of smoked salmon resting on a metal rack that is halfway pulled out from a commercial smoker.

Seafood is as much a science as it is a business. At the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center, Alaska Sea Grant’s Chris Sannito works at this intersection by helping…

Now hiring: Education Specialist

By Alaska Sea Grant | March 18, 2021

Alaska Sea Grant is recruiting for an Education Specialist. This is a 9-month full-time, term University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) faculty position to be based in an Alaska rural coastal…

New cohort of State Fellows start Alaska-based jobs

By Kayla Schommer | September 27, 2018

combined images of 5 young women in various outdoor locations

For the fourth year, Alaska Sea Grant has funded five graduate students to begin marine policy and science communications work with local host organizations this fall. Modeled after the highly…

New artwork in Dillingham showcases water as a source of life and culture

By Kayla Schommer | September 24, 2018

The Dillingham School District recently installed a mural called “Water is Our Way of Life.” The mural highlights the important role water serves as a source of culture, food and…

Science camp in Pribilofs honors Michelle Ridgway

By Alaska Sea Grant | August 5, 2018

St Paul Summer Science Camp 2018 participants.

Every summer, the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Ecosystem Conservation Office (ECO), with support from the Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association and the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association,…

UAF student wins Knauss fellowship

By Paula Dobbyn | July 18, 2018

Amy Kirkham, a University of Alaska Fairbanks doctoral student, will start a Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship in Washington, D.C. next year. The prestigious fellowship is administered by Sea Grant, a…