2009 Calendar
- January 19-23, 2009 | Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage
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Video/Photo Contest: What's Your Alaska?
The UAF International Polar Year (IPY) office and the UA Young Researchers' Network are holding a video and photo contest to celebrate IPY. Enter your best work and win great prizes. Deadline: February 16, 2009.
]AOOS Reaches Wider Audience
Alaska newspaper and television media recently featured the work AOOS is doing to monitor and collect data about Alaska’s ocean and sea ice, to make the data publicly available in real time online, and to promote collaboration between researchers and educators. Read Full Story
AOOS Helps Bring a COSEE to Alaska
A consortium of state marine research organizations will use a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to foster awareness of ocean issues amid a changing Alaska climate.
The award establishes Alaska as a Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE), one of twelve such centers nationwide, created by NSF in recent years, with a theme of People, Oceans and Climate Change.
COSEE Alaska is a partnership between AOOS, the Alaska SeaLife Center, the North Pacific Research Board, the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, the UAF Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, the Anchorage School District, and the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program.
"This program provides a great opportunity to share with the world the dramatic changes we're experiencing in our region due to climate change and to help the Arctic research community connect directly with Alaskans, from fishermen, boaters, teachers and students to other marine stakeholders and the public," said Molly McCammon, AOOS director, who led the COSEE planning efforts.
See the full news release
2009 PWS Field Experiment Website Live!
Learn about this planned end-to-end demonstration of AOOS capabilities in Prince William Sound , from observations to models to their direct application by users. The components of the observing system -- stations, buoys, radar, forecasts and models -- are explained here as well. Go!
Pete Puffin, Alaska Currents, and AOOS
 AOOS provided financial support for a new children's book, Pete Puffin's Wild Ride, published by Alaska Geographic. AOOS scientists Phyllis Stabeno and Tom Weingartner reviewed drafts of the book.
AOOS will also financially support distribution of the book to each library and school in Alaska, as well as assist with incorporating the book into curriculum development.
The story centers around the adventures of Pete, a wooden puffin who accidentally slips off the side of a ship cruising to Alaska. Pete recounts his yearlong ride in Alaska's currents.
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