Sitka Sound Science Center (SSSC) is more than an aquarium, and it’s also more than a hatchery. SSSC is an FSML— field station and marine laboratory. But what does it mean to be a field station?…
Last week I had the opportunity to join Ella Neumann, data manager, and Gale McCrary, research intern, to help with the berry project for the afternoon. We visited four different sites where equipment is set up to monitor…
Dr. Alexis Will, seabird scientist, didn’t see herself as a scientist when she was younger. She never declared that as her future occupation with the certainty of the other kids around her announcing that they would be astronauts…
The red-eye medusa, Polyorchis pencillatus, is a jellyfish species named for their reddish eyespots, which line the base of their bell. They’re not true jellies, because true jellies are in the group Scyphozoa, and…
Dr. Matt Bracken of University of California, Irvine, will be leading an intertidal beach walk Friday the 21st at Sage Beach. He has been studying intertidal communities on the west coast of the U.S., from the coast of…
At the end of this May, over twenty people of varying backgrounds found themselves working with each other on an almost entirely uninhabited island in Southeast Alaska. Members of the group hailed from across the country,…
Our very first camp, Space Travelers, drew to a close last week. Every camper had a blast throughout a busy schedule that incorporated different areas of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics). Activities included designing and testing spacesuits with materials…