Towns don’t get much more different than Newtok, Alaska, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. But the recently relocated Yup’ik village near the Bering Sea coast and the resort town on the tip of Cape Cod have one critical aspect in common: the relentless advance of erosion. That shared vulnerability was the inspiration behind “Lessons from Newtok,” […]
Old Harbor is turning to its past to plot out its future. With support from Alaska Sea Grant, a group of researchers are partnering with the Alutiiq Tribe of Old Harbor to study how people in the 200-person Kodiak Island village have managed their fisheries throughout history. The research will be combined with educational […]
In a typical summer, Sitka fisherman Jacquie Foss and her family travel hundreds of miles around Southeast Alaska, averaging only eight miles an hour. While their profession affords them countless hours to admire Southeast’s rugged coasts, it also exposes them to something Foss finds concerning: an awful lot of litter. “Without healthy habitat, there […]
An Alaska Sea Grant partnership enabled a group of Alaska Natives to dip their proverbial toes into the mariculture industry. In February, Alaska Sea Grant collaborated with the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) to hold a one-day workshop in Juneau entitled “An Introduction to Mariculture […]