Our 2025 Annual Newsletter is now available! Flip through and read about all the news that percolated at the Science Center over the past year. From investigating mysteries in the aquarium, training future leaders in the hatchery,…
35 days of cleaning marine debris from over 7 miles of coastline weighs in at 14,780 lb! That’s as much as a fully loaded car trailer! Our team worked tirelessly this summer with Zofia Danielson at the helm. This is…
A haunting is growing in our Mill building, but don’t frighten yourself just yet; this happens every year. Join us Thursday, October 23rd, from 6 to 8 pm for fun, spooky activities and our entangled-themed haunted house. There will be…
For over ten years, we have watched sea stars dissolve before our eyes. Billions of these beautiful animals have passed away from a pandemic-level catastrophe sweeping across their population from Mexico to Alaska, known as sea star wasting disease. 20…
Our Pink and Chum salmon, which we raised and cared for at the hatchery several years ago, have found their way back home. Once our hatchery salmon reach the smolt stage of their lifecycle (transition from fresh to salt water),…
The 29th Annual Sitka WhaleFest will be November 7th – 9th, 2025 This year’s theme is Entwined. Join us in unraveling the tangled connections of the natural world, revealing how intimately we are bound together on our shared planet.
Elongated bodies snake within rock crevices and algae beds in the waters of the North Pacific. A fish without scales, but covered in circular patterns of dark grey, almost bluish skin, slides out of sight and into its den-like home…
