This Day in Alaskan History-June 21st, 1890
This Day in Alaskan History-June 20th, 1919
Murkowski and Sullivan Welcome Funding for Fisheries
Washington, DC—Thursday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) welcomed the announcement of roughly $99 million in funding allocated for Alaska fishery disasters from the U.S. Department of Commerce. This is a step toward funding for three Alaska fisheries that experienced disasters from 2022-2024. NOAA Fisheries will now work with the State of […]
Murkowski, Merkley Secure Commitment to Preserve U.S. Ocean Monitoring System
Washington, DC – Thursday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) announced the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is pausing its planned removal of the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s (OOI) sensors. NSF’s decision came after Murkowski and Merkley passed a Senate bill to prohibit the NSF from dismantling the OOI system. “The National […]