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2023 WhaleFest Theme Sound Science: Voices from the Ocean This year’s Sitka WhaleFest explores the theme of “sound” science from a variety of angles: using sound waves for communication within the ocean, how scientists use sound to study underwater…
Join us this Friday, Oct 27, from 5 to 8pm to partake in spooky activities. We will have owl pellet dissections, cookie decorating, and for the brave souls among us a Haunted Hatchery Tour! Spooky events for ages…
We welcomed Dr. Lara Rocketenetz (aka Dr. Rocket) as our first Scientist in the schools for the 2023-2024 school year, and she came bearing bugs, 17 year Cicadas to be exact. Students learned the basis of the scientific method…
Discover the secret structures, movements, and stories of animals in the aquarium within our afterschool programs! Thanks to a RurAL CAP grant focusing on improving literacy skills we are able to offer two new and wonderful programs at the Sitka…
Here at the Sitka Sound Science Center we are proud to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. Everyday we are grateful and humbled to be on Lingít Aaní – Lingít land. The Lingít people have been Indigenous to these lands and waters…
Fab Friday – Blatchley Middle School Club This fall, join the Sitka Sound Science Center and the Salty Spoke Bicycle Co-op to celebrate the care and keeping (and riding) of bikes! This free club is a space for…
Seaweed science in a changing ocean: the underwater world of Sitka’s coastal carbon engineers | Thursday September 28th starting at 7:00 pm UAS room 229 The next Natural History seminar hosted by the University of Alaska Southeast will feature Dr.
Grayish or white with bold dark red stripes the painted greenling darts from one shadowy rock crevice to another. It’s searching for small shrimps or worms for its dinner and does so with ease thanks to its adapted head shape,…
The Sitka Sound Science Center recently had the opportunity to host researchers Zachary Tobias, Dr. Carolyn Tepolt, and Gareth Miller from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Massachusetts. The group traveled to Sitka to study a tiny sea squirt that…
According to the National Weather Service Sitka along with Petersburg and Juneau are under a flood watch from Thursday morning through Friday September 15th. The forecast shows an atmospheric river bringing heavy rainfall from 2 to 4 inches to the…
