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Recent News
Harmful Algal Bloom Confirmed on St. George Island
Sept. 30, 2025 Following an Alexandrium bloom detected in the southeast Bering Sea in July and a multi-species die-off event observed on St. George Island in August, tests of seabird, marine mammal, shellfish, and fish samples revealed elevated levels of paralytic...
A Personal Account of My ANSEP Summer Sharking Internship
by Catherine Spangler My name is Catherine Spangler and I’m a Natural Sciences major at the University of Alaska Anchorage. I started out as a psychology major my freshmen year, took a bird surveying internship on a whim, and haven’t looked back from the natural world...
AOOS IFCBs Monitor Harmful Algal Blooms Across Alaska
This summer, AOOS deployed its two Imaging FlowCytoBots (IFCBs) on a variety of research vessels as they conducted cruises in the waters of Alaska. These IFCBs are connected to the flow-through seawater system of the vessels, sample 5 mL of seawater in about 20...
Requesting Bids on Marine Heatwave CTD Project
AOOS is requesting bids to install CTDs at up to seven water level stations in Southeast Alaska. Through this project, referred to the Southeast Alaska Marine Heat Wave Instrument Array, AOOS will initiate some critical nearshore ocean conditions observing in this...