After years of planning and months of delays, the construction project to renovate the Historic Sitka Sawmill building began on Monday, May 8. The building is being dismantled piece by piece, with the intent of reusing as much of the…
Challenge yourself to design and build a human-powered paper bike that will compete in the first ever Sitka Paper Bike Obstacle Course! Sam Malanowski, mechanical engineer and custom bike builder, will travel from San Francisco to contribute his design expertise…
Join us for the 18th Annual Parade of the Species, just before Earth Day! Make sure to dress as your favorite species for the costume contest. The parade will end at Sitka Sound Science Center, where there will be an…
Join SSSC on Saturday April 20 for the 2019 Coastal CODE Cleanup, sponsored by Alaskan Brewing Co. We will provide bags for garbage and recycling starting at 11am, then you are on your own to cleanup. All garbage and…
Lauren Bell, a Sitka-based PhD student with the University of California Santa Cruz, is wrapping up an experiment that investigates how ocean acidification and warming may affect the development of Pacific Herring embryos. The study compares the relative growth and…
This summer SSSC is excited to be hosting a group of researchers from the University of California Irvine who are conducting a series of studies on how intertidal zone species are responding to changes in the climate. The team, who…
Join us on Saturday, April 20, at 1:00pm for the last Octopus Encounter of the spring. We will see how far Pearl and Kanaloa have come with figuring out their food puzzles. This event is included with your $5 admission,…
