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***Date has been changed to Thursday, September 7th** The first “Behind the Scenes” of the 2017 fall season will take place this Thursday, September 7th, from 5:30 – 7pm…
Thomas Quinn (a faculty member of UW’s Acquatic and Fishery Sciences) will be leading the next Natural History Seminar. His presentation will illustrate the role of bears in the ecology and evolution of salmon, and the importance of salmon as…
The Sitka Sound Science Center is excited to hear that NOAA will offer electronic monitoring to fishermen next year. Great work from the multiple parties involved, including ALFA and Archipelago Marine Research, who both rent space at SSSC!…
The program takes school-aged kids on an in-depth journey through the Ahlgren Aquarium and SJ Hatchery, where they will complete different quests. Once all five quests have been completed, they will be awarded a Junior Naturalist badge. Daily admission rates…
Professor Kurt Hinterbichler will be presenting “Measuring the Size of the Universe” at Sitka Public Library on Thursday, August 3rd at 6pm. Hinterbichler was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, earned his Ph.D at Columbia University in New York…
Join us at the Science Center Saturday, July 29th at 10am for Coffee & Quarks! Our visiting physicists for the Sitka Sound Summer Workshop are taking questions about anything you ever wanted to know about the universe. Submit your anonymous…
Join Sitka Sound Science Center’s summer research interns Lindsey Critser and Cecelia Hosley for a public talk about their work developing a long-term monitoring protocol for local shellfish populations, Wednesday evening at 6pm at the…
Sitka Fine Arts campers and their families visited the Sitka Sound Science Center on June 15th for Family Night. They particpated in an Eco-Discovery education program called “The Case of the Lost Baby Sea Urchin.” For the activity, campers had…
We are excited to welcome U.S. Coast Guard Academy undergraduates 1/c Lindsey Critser and 1/c Cecelia Hosley to Sitka for their 6-week science internship at the Sitka Sound Science Center! The purpose of this science internship is…
As a part of our 10th anniversary, the Sitka Sound Science Center reprinted the 1929 classic “Square-Rigged” by Jack Calvin! Follow young Bert Lindsay as he sails from San Francisco to Bristol Bay, Alaska. Full of intrigue, adventure, and grit, “Square-Rigged”…