Dr. Alison Stimpert will present her work to the public during our 2nd Brown Bag Lunch Science Series, Friday April 12 at noon. Please bring a lunch and join us for this presentation.  Alison’s talk is entitled “Underwater Sounds of Cetaceans, from Humpbacks to Beaked Whales”.  Dr. Stimpert is a scientist at the Naval Post [...]

Buy your tickets to the Food Web Cruise this Saturday! For more information visit:  http://www.sitkascience.org/sitka-whalefest/food-web-cruise/  

Last summer a local citizen found a dead newborn killer whale on a local beach. Jan Straley’s team, working with Dr. Rafferty conducted an autopsy of the animal. Through generous support of the Crossett Foundation and the Sitka Permanent Charitable Trust the Sitka Sound Science Center will use this specimen to engage students in a [...]

Sitka Sound Science Center is honored to receive a $200,000 contribution from the Douglas Island Pink and Chum Inc. The contribution is for Phase 1 of our Capital Improvement Project which will renovate the building. The first phase of the project will replace the roof, windows and repair the exterior of the building. Thank you [...]

Aquarium Manager Lynn Wilbur was recently accepted by the University of Aberdeen Department of Biology into a PhD program. We are so proud and excited for her. She will be doing her coastal  marine research in Peru.

On a late fall morning excursion to the Eliason breakwater, aquarium manager Lynn Wilbur collected the giant kelp Macrocystis for the aquarium touch tanks.  Although the amount of sunlight and nutrients are reduced in the fall and winter months, Macrocystis and other species of giant kelp are present in Sitka Sound all year long.  To [...]

    Winter hasn’t even begun, but we bet that you are longing for those days of sunshine from summers past.  Let us accommodate you with this photo of the gold dirona, Dirona pellucida, which was taken last summer during one of our collecting dives at the Eliason breakwater.  The gold dirona, along with the [...]

The Sitka Sound Science Center Board sold Whalefest wine with killer whale teeth(made from a mold of our killer whale skeleton) ornaments for holiday gifts this year at the Shee Atika. It was a KILLER idea. SSSC Americorps Volunteer Alaina Avery molded the teeth, SSSC Board member Heather Woody did the decorating and the whole [...]

Founding Sitka Sound Science Center Board member Scott Harris stepped down from the board and was recognized for his pioneering and persevering spirit at the SSSC Board meeting this week. He is receiving the first past president award given presented here by the current board president Jim Seeland. The award is a pair of extratuffs [...]

Link: ITB Hatchery Wild Vessel charters for Southeast Please see our  Invitation to Bid for the Southeast Alaska Salmon Surveys to take place in the summer of 2013. This Salmon charter is being sought by the Prince William Sound Science Center for work to be done in partnership with the Sitka Sound Science Center. Please [...]