Featuring a morning adventure for pre-k students with hands on exploration of the salmon lifecycle followed by fish art prints and open admission to the aquarium. Our pre-k program will run from 10:00 am to 11:00 am. All children must…
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?…
You might wonder what would possess a pre-dental student from Utah to travel thousands of miles north to Fairbanks, Alaska. It was the love of getting his hands dirty and discovery–not within a person’s mouth, but within layers of rock…
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…
Join our evening Watercolors class with Pat Kehoe July 16th through 19th This watercolor class will explore the aquarium’s critters and weather permitting-landscapes near the Science Center. All with expert guidance from local watercolorist Pat Kehoe. There will be four…
We wish everyone a happy 4th of July weekend and hope you get to enjoy all the festivities. To celebrate we are giving our staff some well-deserved time off and will be closed from the 4th through the 7th. Normal…
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…
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…
