Imagine spending 4 days traveling miles up a frozen river in Alaska by snow machine, auguring holes through ice as thick as 80 cm, and looking for juvenile salmon. That’s the adventure NOAA’s Alaska Region Habitat Conservation Division Hydropower Coordinator Susan Walker and colleague Jeff Davis set off on last February on the Susitna River, […]
NOAA’s newest research ship, the Reuben Lasker, departs San Diego this week on its first scientific mission that includes surveying gray whales along the West Coast. The survey will also search the Gulf of Alaska for right whales, among the most rare and endangered whales on Earth. The expedition is a collaboration between the Southwest […]
Fisheries are an economic and employment engine in Alaska, with the commercial and recreational sectors generating $4.8 billion in sales impacts and 61,000 jobs in 2012. However, invasive species, or species that are introduced to a new area where they have the potential to cause harm, could significantly affect the ecosystems that make Alaska so […]
Although they did not disclose how they were killed, NOAA biologists say that several of the 15 Stellar Sea Lions found dead 45 miles southeast of Cordova on Softuk Beach displayed evidence that they were killed by humans. NOAA and law enforcement personnel traveled to the beach located in Prince William Sound after receiving a report […]