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Giant Storms, Big Waves and Chilly Winds

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 8, 2021   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Giant Storms, Big Waves and Chilly Winds

Alaska went big on New Year’s. First, on New Year’s Eve 2020, a superstorm spun its way through the North Pacific Ocean and into the Aleutian Islands. The twirling mass of gases surrounding Earth was more than 5,000 miles wide, its boundaries stretching from northern Japan to middle Alaska. That’s about 10 times the width […]

IPHC Requests Tenders for the 2021 Fishery-Independent Setline Survey (FISS)

By IPHC Secretariat | International Pacific Halibut Commission on Dec 30, 2020   At Sea, Featured, General News  

IPHC Requests Tenders for the 2021 Fishery-Independent Setline Survey (FISS)

SEATTLE – The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) is seeking to charter longline vessels to conduct its Fishery-Independent Setline Survey (FISS) in 2021. The primary purpose of the FISS is to collect standardized data for use in the Pacific halibut stock assessment. This information collected is also used to study aspects of the Pacific halibut resource […]

Bait and Switch: Mislabeled Salmon, Shrimp Have Biggest Environmental Toll

By UW News Staff on Dec 30, 2020   Featured, General News  

Bait and Switch: Mislabeled Salmon, Shrimp Have Biggest Environmental Toll

Seafood is the world’s most highly traded food commodity, by value, and the product is hard to track from source to market. Reports of seafood mislabeling have increased over the past decade, but few studies have considered the overall environmental effects of this deceptive practice. A study by Arizona State University, the University of Washington […]

Warm Oceans Helped First Human Migration From Asia to North America

By UW News Staff on Dec 19, 2020   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Warm Oceans Helped First Human Migration From Asia to North America

New research reveals significant changes to the circulation of the North Pacific and its impact on the initial migration of humans from Asia to North America. The international study, led by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and published Dec. 9 in Science Advances, provides a new picture of the circulation and climate of the […]

Operation North Pacific Guard 2020

By Pacific Area online newsroom on Oct 8, 2020   At Sea, Featured, General News  

Operation North Pacific Guard 2020

  The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro conducts a boarding of a Chinese fishing vessel The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro recently completed a nearly two-month patrol, traveling 12,500 miles throughout the North Pacific Ocean, supporting Operation North Pacific Guard, an annual high seas U.S. fisheries international law […]

Astra Rocket Crashes to Ground after Brief Kodiak Island Launch on Friday

By Alaska Native News on Sep 12, 2020   Featured, General News, Southcentral  

Astra Rocket Crashes to Ground after Brief Kodiak Island Launch on Friday

  An Astra rocket launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak island ended sooner than expected on Friday night when the vehicle suffered oscillations and safety systems shut down the engines and it crashed back to the ground in a spectacular explosion. The launch at 11:19 pm was a test of the company’s first […]

Alameda-Based Coast Guard Cutter Returns Home following a Three-month Patrol

By Coast Guard Pacific Area Public Affairs on Sep 9, 2020   At Sea, Featured, General News  

Alameda-Based Coast Guard Cutter Returns Home following a Three-month Patrol

  ALAMEDA, Calif. — The crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) returned home Monday to Alameda following a three month, 15,000 mile, multi-mission patrol. Munro’s crew began their patrol in the Bering Sea and spent 37 days enforcing fisheries regulations from Alaska to the maritime boundary line separating U.S. and Russian waters. Munro’s crew […]

EPA, State and Local Partners Team up to Address PFAS in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

By Mark MacIntyre | EPA Seattle on Jul 29, 2020   Featured, Health, State  

EPA, State and Local Partners Team up to Address PFAS in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

  EPA Region 10 supports Pacific Northwest and Alaskan efforts to identify and reduce toxic threats   SEATTLE (July 29,2020)— Aggressively addressing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continues to be an active and ongoing priority for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA has made significant progress implementing the PFAS Action Plan—a comprehensive cross-agency plan to address an emerging chemical-of-concern that has appeared in ground and drinking water […]

Alaska Pacific University Will Open With Distance Learning

By Elias Rojas | Alaska Pacific University on Jul 28, 2020   Featured, Health, Science/Education, State  

Alaska Pacific University Will Open With Distance Learning

  Campus housing, dining services and computer labs will be available to students ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Pacific University (APU) will begin the 2020-2021 school year with the majority of classes delivered by distance learning, University President Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson announced today. APU originally planned to hold fall classes in person with thorough physical distancing and […]

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