Washington, D.C. – Thursday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the bipartisan Preventing Youth Homelessness Demonstration Act. This legislation would authorize $105 million for HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) aimed at tackling youth homelessness by investing in prevention strategies and community-based solutions. The funding would be used to […]
What do walrus monitoring, the Tracy Arm tsunami and salmon bycatch have in common? All of them are important topics for audiences in Alaska’s coastal communities. Which is why each has been the focus of a recent presentation at one of Alaska Sea Grant’s three public lecture series: Strait Science Series, the Petersburg Science […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – An avalanche is an inexorable force of nature. The frozen tidal wave forms after successive winter storms layer marching loads of snow across the mountain face. When a strongly bonded slab rests atop a weaker layer, a solitary fracture can suddenly trigger a singularity of physics like a switchblade knife. Snow […]
A new study uses spatial models to precisely map how Pacific cod prey on commercially important snow and southern Tanner crabs in the eastern Bering Sea. A new study by NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center biologists illuminates predator-prey dynamics between Pacific cod and commercially important snow and Tanner crabs. Scientists examined diet data collected […]