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…
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…
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…
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…
Join the Sitka Sound Science Center Staff and Board in welcoming Dr. Brian Buma to Sitka as our Scientist in Residency Fellow (SIRF). Dr. Buma is an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at University of Colorado, Denver, Affiliate…
The chum crew is off and running to start their 2021 field season! The crew arrived in Juneau this past week for final training before each team heads off to their respective survey location for the season. Training and…
As we at the Sheldon Jackson Hatchery prepare for the salmon to return to Crescent Bay for spawning, we are also watching for an ideal time to begin cost recovery. Cost recovery is the primary method whereby hatcheries recover…
