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Alaska Sea Grant on YouTube
Alaska Sea Grant and the Marine Advisory Program are now on YouTube, where clips can be viewed of many of our award-winning videos and DVDs on subjects ranging from seafood quality and sea safety to beach walking, marine debris and crab research. Clips also have been added to their respective description pages within the Alaska Sea Grant bookstore. See them on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/alaskaseagrant
Fishermen invited to marine refrigeration workshops in Kodiak, Homer, Anchorage
The Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program is offering marine refrigeration workshops for commercial fishermen.
Blue king crabs hatched from Little Diomede Island travel to Juneau for AKCRRAB research
About 800 juvenile blue king crabs hatched in Seward will be studied by scientists in Juneau, to understand growth and molting and to develop methods to tag them. The long-term goal of the research is to rehabilitate some king crab fisheries in Alaska. Look for monthly AKCRRAB updates in the News Flash newsletter.
Alaska Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence hires noted Homer educator
Marilyn Sigman, a respected marine science educator from Homer, has been named education specialist for the recently established Alaska Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE Alaska) in Anchorage.
MESAS Fellowships
Alaska Sea Grant is helping UAF promote Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic (MESAS) fellowships. Read more on our Fellowships page or visit the MESAS Web site.
Alaska Sea Grant legal scholars who successfully encouraged the State of Alaska to enact oversight measures after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, reunited in Alaska last month for the 20th anniversary to discuss protection of Alaska's seas and coasts.
Read about this and more in Fishlines, our monthly in-house newsletter.
