Katie Basile – Alaska Sea Grant

In a typhoon’s wake at WAISC

By Tom Moran | May 18, 2026

An Alaska Native elder in a blue sweater stands before a microphone, speaking to a crowd of people sitting at folding tables.

Ex-Typhoon Halong played itself out in the northern stretches of the Bering Sea more than six months ago. But the storm’s continuing power was evident at the 2026 Western Alaska…

Helping Halong recovery, one freezer at a time

By Tom Moran | February 24, 2026

A number of foods sit in a cardboard box in ziploc bags and shrink wrap, including salmon filets, salmon strips and other subsistence foods.

Ex-typhoon Halong couldn’t have come at a worse time for residents of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta—or for their freezers. “It’s fall time when the storms usually hit,” explained Katie Basile, Alaska…

Expanding to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region

By Alice van Veenendaal | June 4, 2025

A woman smiles as the sun hits her face, her brown hair flows in the wind and she wears a teal windbreaker.

Alaska Sea Grant has hired Katie Basile as a new specialist to serve the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region. Basile will focus on supporting communities in responding to a changing environment, including…

Katie BasileCoastal Resilience Specialist, Bethel (907) 543-4509 Contact Katie Bio page Katie Basile Katie Basile is a coastal resilience specialist based in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, where she was raised and…