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February 14, 2024 – Aquarium,

Valentine’s Day in the Aquarium

The chocolate won’t last, but your membership will. Instead of the traditional flowers and sweet treats this year consider giving your loved one a Science Center membership. ♥️ Imagine strolling along a bed of beautiful urchins and anemones, admiring…

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February 5, 2024 – News, Education,

Registration is Open!

Summer Camps 2024 Registration is open The theme for this year’s summer camps is “Journeys.” With 7 different camps available to rising 1st graders all the way to adults there is truly something for everyone. Join us to journey through…

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January 30, 2024 – Science After Hours, Events,

Canoe Odyssey

After Hours 3 Part Series | Thursdays at 5:30pm starting February 1st, 2024 It’s just about impossible to live in Sitka without making a journey from Washington to Alaska. We usually make this journey by plane, or sometimes the ferry.

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January 29, 2024 – News, Events, Aquarium,

Slime, Clones, and Baby Factories

Join our own Matt Wilson at the first Natural History Seminar of 2024, hosted by University of Alaska Southeast Sitka campus. Join Matt on a guided walkthrough of jellyfish reproduction and culture methods. We’ll quickly establish what exactly jellyfish…

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January 26, 2024 – Education,

Fungi with Fourth Graders

             Last week the SSSC education team along with local fungi grower Levi Adams visited all the fourth-grade classes at Keet Gooshi Heen. Educators came with fun fungi facts to spur excitement…

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January 22, 2024 – News, Education,

Sealaska making SeaSTEM possible

Thank you Sealaska for making culturally relevant science education and workforce development programs possible in Sitka. Sitka Sound Science Center facilitates unique opportunities for secondary students to link traditional knowledge with technical skills creating capacity and identifying pathways for students…

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January 17, 2024 – Events, Education,

Afterschool Programs

Thanks to the Thriving Communities Program made possible by the State’s Rural Alaska Community Action Program (RurAL CAP) Grant that was awarded to the Sitka Sound Science Center in August 2023 we have been able to offer an array of…

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January 15, 2024 – News, Research,

The Future of Seaweed

Newly published in Ecosphere, an esa open access journal, and co-authored by our own Dr. Lauren Bell is a review of her lab work from 2022 conducted at Sitka Sound Science Center Season influences interspecific responses of canopy‐forming kelps…

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January 10, 2024 – Science After Hours, News, Education,

Decoding the Aquarium

Join us in decoding scientific names of the aquarium. Thursday, Jan 18th…

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January 4, 2024 – News,

Rising Tide 2023

Dear science supporters, We would like to thank you for all your support and donations throughout the past year. 2023 was full of growth and development for the Sitka Sound Science Center: we completed a major construction project for our…

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