Posts Tagged ‘Gay Sheffield’
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 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 MoreConference addresses rapid change in Western Alaska
The 16th Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference was held in Nome this month, hosted by Alaska Sea Grant and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Northwest Campus. The four-day conference brought…
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 MoreKNOM: Little known about algal toxins’ effects on subsistence in Arctic waters
Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield says two different samples of clams from that voyage were found to have high levels of an algal toxin called saxitoxin
Read MoreSeattle Times: Why are birds and seals starving in a Bering Sea full of fish?
Federal and university scientists, including Alaska Sea Grant’s Gay Sheffield, are trying to better understand why some birds and marine mammals have been unable to find enough food, and whether toxic algae blooms — increasing as the water warms — could have contributed or caused some of the die-offs.
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 MoreNYT Opinion: Where the sea ice recedes, so does an Alaska way of life
With climate change, animals that sustain Native hunters are disappearing, and harmful algae are contaminating waters. This opinion article was written by Gay Sheffield, Alaska Sea Grant marine advisory agent, Vera Trainer, president of the International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae, and Rick Thoman, climate expert at the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy.
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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