Jun, 17, 2013: Map This map shows the movements of four of the tagged sperm whales, for the last 2 days, up to 08:00 on 17 June 2013. It includes only the higher  quality position estimates from the Argos satellite system, and the red dots indicate the most recent position. Whole story: http://www.sitkascience.org/research/sperm_whale_avoidance/

Alaire Hughey was born and raised in Sitka. She graduated from Sitka High School in the spring of 2012, and then took off to volunteer for non-profit educational organization PROBIGUA in Guatemala for six months. She now works as an interpreter for Sitka Sound Science Center, giving tours and charming visitors. In mid-July, she will [...]

June,12, 2013: New map of tracking This map shows the movements of four of the five tagged sperm whales, for the last 24 hours, up to 10:00 on 12 June 2013. It includes only the higher quality position estimates from the Argos satellite system, and the red dots indicate the most recent position. We haven’t received [...]

The teacher training workshop for the elementary ed educators put on by The University of Alaska Southeast and Sitka Sound Science Center is a lot of fun. Teachers are learning about the Scientists in the Schools program that has been honed and perfected in Sitka for the last 17 years. They are doing activities and [...]

Here’s a map of the movements of all five tagged sperm whales that the SEASWAP team tagged, for the last 24 hours, up to 9:00 am on June 5th, 2013. It includes only the higher quality position estimates from the Argos satellite system, and the red dots indicate the most recent position.     This [...]

The Pacific Salmon Commission Northern Fund supported SSSC’s water filtration upgrade at the diversion dam on Indian River. The new system will better filter the freshwater that comes to our salmon hatchery which will improve our coho returns and improve our educational training area.  Thank you!

UAS Marine Mammal researcher Jan Straley and UAF researcher Russ Andrews are out off the coast of Sitka tagging sperm whales to better understand whale behaviour and feeding patterns. The work is part of a large cooperative study that involves the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, the Central Bering Sea Fishermens [...]

The Sitka Sound Science Center is pleased to announce the inaugural Scientists in Residency Fellows for 2013-2014. The Sitka Sound Science Center, through funding from the National Science Foundation, has established a Scientist in Residency Fellowship (SIRF) at the Center in Sitka.  Each year fellowships will be awarded to preeminent marine scientists from across the [...]

Students in Jennifer Oen’s 2nd grade class look on in wonder at the little red octopus brought over  from the Molly O. Ahlgren Aquarium at the Sitka Sound Science Center.  For the past two weeks, the students have been conducting their own study on the ecology of intertidal animals and will be visiting the touch [...]

The Sitka Sound Science Center is pleased to announce that the Alaska Marine Stewardship Foundation has awarded us a grant to catalog marine debris and remove debris from Kruzof Island with a focus on debris generated by the 2011 Japanese Tsunami. The SSSC will continue its collaboration with the F/V Cherokee to access outer coast [...]