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…
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…
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…
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 Professor…
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 their costs…
Please join us on Wednesday, July 28th at 10 am AKDT for a webinar in collaboration with the RAND Corporation’s community partners in Sitka, Alaska, on lessons learned by local community organizations in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Community response…
The Sitka Sound Science Center continues to host researchers working on a landslide research and monitoring program. For ten days this July, Dr. Annette Patton (postdoctoral landslide scientist at the University of Oregon) and Emily Pannell (undergraduate mechanical engineering student…
