Located in the heart of SE Alaska, the CHUM project crew has spent the summer surveying for chum salmon in three stunning locations. Four SSSC crew members are stationed at Sawmill Creek, 35 miles NW of Juneau. Located 2 miles…
This week Sitka Sound Science Center received a special delivery of salmon frye that were delivered by an amphibous airplane . SSSC has accepted chinook salmon frye from NOAA’s Little Port Walter research facility. NOAA is shutting down its chinook…
It has been a wet windy week for the CHUM crew! With gusts up to 30 mph and over 5 inches of rain in a 48-hour period, crews quickly adapted to soggy salmon surveying. Eventually the weather won out and…
Janet Neilson from the Humpback Whale Monitoring Program Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve recently shared their 2020 findings with SSSC. Janet was a speaker at a Sitka Whalefest and was excited to share about the come back of humpback…
The CHUM project crew has the privilege to survey for chum salmon in three stunning locations throughout SE Alaska. Fish Creek is one such location. Located 7 miles northwest of Juneau on north Douglas Island, Fish Creek originates from…
Student engineers worked to design and then build a smokehouse that resides on the SSSC Campus. Last week, SSSC celebrated an exciting achievement for the 2021 Revolution camp. Student engineers shared a newly constructed smokehouse with families and staff with a ribbon-cutting. “Revolution” is the…
In late spring of 2020, the Sitka Sound Science Center, in partnership with the Tlingit-Haida Central Council and the RAND Corporation, administered a survey to communities throughout Southeastern (SE) Alaska. Our research objective was to attain local insights on COVID-19…
