The future is coming to SSSC with the construction of our new Spawning and Incubation Facility, commonly referred to as the SPIFy Project! Plans are in the works to bring our former spawning facility, built by Sheldon Jackson college students…
“I want to give back and participate in our community,” says Rob Allen, a lifelong Sitkan who is something of a nonprofit board member addict. Rob has volunteered and lent his professional expertise as a board member to…
Written by Karl Cranston Simmons As a senior at Pacific High School, I’ve been thinking a lot about my future education and career goals for the past year. I’ve done some journalism work and am thinking about making it my…
What does a soil scientist, a botanist, a fish biologist, and a bird expert have in common? Why Sitka High School’s Field Science class of course! On April 27th, students, local experts, and representatives from the U.S. Forest Service, the…
Quivers from Mt. Edgecumbe in April brought a good deal of attention to the dormant Stratovolcano off the coast of Sitka. A team of volcanologists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory have been studying the volcano and the recent earthquake swarm…
BY Karl Cranston Simmons Karl is a graduating student from Pacific High School, who is working at the Science Center under the Purvis Calvin Field Station job program For this installment of the SPIFy blog, we interviewed Haley Jenkins, the…
The Sitka Sound Science Center is excited to welcome Julie Schram as this month’s Scientist in Residency Fellow (SIRF). The SIRF Fellowship is meant to provide four weeks for scientists to have time to work on their research and engage…
SSSC board member Michael Mausbach might not seem like the typical planned giving advocate. He is on the 20 side of 30 years old, and in the early stages of his career. “ I think a lot of people in…
Dr. Gary Greene The Science Center is excited to welcome Dr. Gary Greene back to Sitka next week as a visiting marine geologist. Gary is no stranger to Sitka and the Science Center. In fact, he was one of the…
This week, the Sitka Sound Science Center was honored to host our first Science Advisory Committee meeting. The Science Advisory Committee is made up of five experts in a variety of scientific fields, from geology to environmental social science, to…