Backyard Buoys empowers Indigenous and other coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the Pacific Islands to collect, steward, and use wave data that complements their existing knowledge to support their blue economy: maritime activities, food...
In partnership with the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and the Barrow Whaling Captains Association, AOOS co-hosted a workshop in Utqiaġvik, Alaska to deploy wave buoys in the Beaufort and Chuckchi seas to expand marine safety tools for hunters. Hear more from AOOS...
Indigenous communities have relied on the ocean for millennia and still do to this day. Climate change, however, is making the ocean unpredictable, and poses a new and urgent challenge. Rising temperatures and sea levels threaten coastal communities and whalers or...
The Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) is collaborating with partners in the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska to improve access to ocean data for Indigenous coastal communities through a new project funded by the National Science Foundation’s...
Communicating science in and around the Bering Sea Learn what’s happening in and around the Bering Sea! AOOS partnered with the International Arctic Research Center at UAF, our community advisory board, scientists & community members to bring you recent...
