JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Coast Guard detected and responded to the China-flagged research ship Xue Long 2 on the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) in the U.S. Arctic, approximately 290 NM north of Utqiagvik, Alaska, Friday. A Coast Guard C-130J Hercules fixed wing aircraft from Air Station Kodiak responded to the Xue Long 2, […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Wednesday, a Fairbanks jury returned a guilty verdict against 29-year-old Conar Lee Groppel of Fairbanks for Sexual Assault in the Second Degree. For his conviction, Mr. Groppel faces a sentence of up to 99 years. On February 14, 2020, Groppel and the victim, L.D., were incarcerated at Fairbanks Correctional Center. Groppel was in […]
A 2,500-mile, 16-day research cruise that began Thursday in Seward and concludes in Nome aims to advance environmental research in coastal Alaska through a novel addition: public tours of the research vessel when it makes port calls. The Convergence Research Cruise on the research vessel Sikuliaq is a part of the four-year ACTION project, a […]
Second reported sighting in eastern North Pacific waters south of the Aleutian Island chain. A new scientific paper discusses the first NOAA Fisheries record of a bowhead whale in Southeast Alaska. It is only the second documented sighting of this Arctic species in the eastern North Pacific, south of the Aleutian Islands. The whale was observed by […]