Nov 26, 2025
Lisa and Marcus Barr, Lead Observer for the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO) in Brevig Mission, attended the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) Annual Meeting in Victoria, BC, from November 13–15. ELOKA is a network of community-led...
Oct 6, 2025
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...
Sep 6, 2025
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...
Sep 6, 2025
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...
Aug 4, 2025
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...
Jun 4, 2025
The Yukon River Chinook Run Timing Project is a collaboration between the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Alaska Ocean Observing System. Yukon River Chinook are predicted to arrive on the delta with...
