Welcome to Amelia Greenberg, our new AmeriCorps Volunteer! She grew up in New Hampshire and received her BA in English at Grinnell College in Iowa. During college she spent six months in Ecuador…
SSSC is involved in all kinds of ocean acidification(OA) research because people in Sitka rely on the ocean for sustenance. Thank you to the Alaska Longline Fishermen and the Sitka Tribe for your interest and work on…
Sitka is starting a local chapter for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, see flyer below for upcoming events and read more about them here: http://citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/AK_Sitka/…
The next Natural History Seminar talk will feature Chris Sergeant, Ecologist at the National Park Service, Southeast Alaska Network, on “The Most Mysterious Murrelet – what we do and don’t know about Kittlitz’s Murrelets in Glacier Bay”…
We are very excited to hold a FREE weekend tour of Sitka as a Field Station from May 5 – 7th, 2017 for faculty members across the nation that are interested in Field Course development in conjunction to Sitka’s and…
Marine mammal paleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson arrived in Sitka as our first Scientist in Residency Fellow of 2017, here from January 27th to February 24th. Dr. Pyenson is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National…
We were so honored to host the art dedication for Nancy Ricketts, daughter of Ed and Nan Ricketts. John Straley interviewed Nancy, who shared her childhood memories and inspirational journey with the project. Nancy has needlepointed a jellyfish, with…
