NOAA Live! Alaska Season 3: 2022-23
NOAA Live! Alaska is a series of webinars that connects NOAA scientists and partners with students, teachers, and Alaska communities. In 2022-23, we will be featuring short series of webinars focused on different areas of Alaska.
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NOAA Live! Alaska is a series of interactive webinars, aimed at Alaska students in grades 2-8 (but of interest to all ages!). We will feature NOAA scientists, educators and partners to explore NOAA’s work in Alaska. Learn about current research. Connect to what’s going on in your communities. Join us to ask questions to our presenters and learn more about weather, oceanography, marine life, fisheries and more in Alaska!
NOAA Live! Alaska is coordinated by NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA's Alaska Regional Collaboration Network, and the National Weather Service. The series is modeled on the NOAA Live! webinars coordinated by Woods Hole Sea Grant and the NOAA Regional Collaboration Network. Contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring (email: lisa.hiruki-raring@noaa.gov) with any questions.
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NOAA Live! Alaska Webinar Recordings
View recordings of all of our previous NOAA Live! Alaska events.
Or scroll down for a link to each webinar under its description.
September 27, 2022 - Keeping Alaska's Coastline Clean: What You Can Do About Marine Debris in Your Community
Tuesday, Sep 27, 2022 - 1:00 pm Alaska time
Peter Murphy (NOAA's Marine Debris Program), Kim Raum-Suryan (NOAA Fisheries' Alaska Regional Office), Barb Lake (NOAA Fisheries' Alaska Regional Office), and Rina Basaliso (Thunder Mountain High School)
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With Alaska's extensive, rugged and remote coastline, longer than the rest of the United States coastline combined, innovative and creative approaches are required to address marine debris. Join us to learn about marine debris of all shapes and sizes and what some of Alaska's students are doing to address marine debris in their communities!
Webinar
Educational Resources
- Lose the Loop - 1 minute video describing what happens to lost and discarded trash and its impacts on marine mammals.
- Ocean Guardian School Program
- NOAA Trash Talk - short videos on marine debris and what you can do.
- Webinar Recording - NOAA Live! Alaska - How did entangled Steller sea lions lead to Alaska's first Ocean Guardian schools?
- Webinar Recording - NOAA Live! Alaska - Talking Trash: Marine Debris Research in Alaska
- Partnering with Native Communities to Take On Marine Debris
Please contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring for more information.
October 19, 2022 - Every Path Is Unique: How to Turn Your Passion for Science, technology, Engineering, Art, and Math into a Career
Wednesday, Oct 19, 2022 - 1:00 pm Alaska time
Alex Tugaw (University of Alaska Southeast), Ky Friedman (Stanford University), and Annie Masterman (Alaska Fisheries Science Center)
Interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and/or Math? Join our panelists to learn about STEAM opportunities in Alaska and hear from students as they share their passions, personal journeys, and advice.
Webinar
Educational Resources
Please contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring for more information.
November 8, 2022 - ANSEP Overview: Providing Education Innovations Now and into the Future
Tuesday, Nov 8 2022 - 1:00 pm Alaska time
Yosty Storms, Senior Director of ANSEP K-8 components and Michael Bourdukofsky, ANSEP Director of Special Projects
Interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Math? Join our panelists to learn about STEM opportunities through the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program. Yosty Storms will discuss ANSEP's K-8 student opportunities and how the program engages students to get them excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Michael Bourdukofsky will discuss ANSEP's High School Acceleration Academy and how students can go from eighth grade to a Bachelor's degree in five years!
Webinar
Webinar Recording - ANSEP Overview: Providing Education Innovations Now and into the Future
Educational Resources
- ANSEP offers a wide variety of STEM opportunities for students from kindergarten through university
- Keeping That Summer Vibe Alive! Post #2 - NOAA Fisheries blog post about summer STEAM programs, including ANSEP's Middle School Career Explorations Camp
Please contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring for more information.
November 15, 2022 - Seaweed in the Classroom
Tuesday, Nov 15 2022 - 1:00 pm Alaska time
Jordan Hollarsmith (Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Mariculture Program Lead), Alicia Bishop (Alaska Regional Office’s Aquaculture Coordinator), Juliana Cornett (Alaska SeaGrant Fellow at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center), James Currie (Alaska Sea Grant Fellow at the Alaska Regional Office)
Have you or your students ever wanted to learn more about seaweed? Although humans have consumed seaweed in coastal Alaska since time immemorial, seaweed farming is a new and rapidly growing industry in Alaska. Join this webinar to learn more about how scientists at the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center and NOAA Alaska Regional Office study seaweed, our collaborations with local classrooms, and how you can utilize our curriculum to bring seaweed into your own classroom to highlight community engagement, placed-based education, and food sovereignty.
Webinar
Webinar Recording - Seaweed in the Classroom
Educational Resources
- Seaweed vs Plant Activity Sheet
- Seaweed Anatomy Activity Sheet and Key
- Seaweed Life Cycle Activity Sheet and Key
- Seaweed Word Search Activity Sheet and Key
- Seaweed Bookmark Activity Instructions
Please contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring for more information.
January 24, 2023 - Sealaska Heritage Institute's STEAM High School Internships - Propelling Students out of the House and into the Field
Tuesday, Jan 24 2023 - 1:00 pm Alaska time
Elle Gray-Smith, SHI High School STEAM Mentorship & Internship Coordinator; Josh Russell, Alaska Fisheries Science Center; Barb Lake, Alaska Regional Office
Sealaska Heritage Institute is in the second year of offering paid summer internships for Alaska Native rising high school juniors, seniors, and recent high school graduates. We are searching for students who are interested in pursuing a STEAM career to place at one of our many internship sites that include NOAA, Alaska Electric Light & Power, the Forest Service, Art Studios, and more. Students will be able to explore specific professions, network with local contacts, and connect their cultural knowledge to future endeavors in STEAM. Student applications are open now along with internship host applications. Join us at January's NOAA Live! Alaska webinar to learn more!
Webinar
Webinar Recording - Propelling Students out of the House and into the Field
Educational Resources
Please contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring for more information.
February 21, 2023 - Planning and Community Services Department Information Sharing in the North Slope Borough
Tuesday, Feb 21 2023 - 1:00 pm Alaska time
Chastity Kayutak Olemaun, Director of Planning and Community Services for the North Slope Borough
North Slope Borough serves eight communities in the northernmost borough within the United States. Our population includes over 10,000 people spanning across the Arctic Ocean in Alaska. We are the only home rule government within the United States and serve our people in all capacities from Fire, Police, Health, Public Works, Search and Rescue, Inupiaq History, Language and Culture and Capital Improvement Projects. Join us to learn about the Planning & Community Services department that oversees land management in the capacity of permitting and inspections, geographical informational systems and comprehensive plan updates.
Webinar
Please contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring for more information.
February 28, 2023 - How Do We Track Where Fish Go Throughout Their Life?
Tuesday, Feb 21 2023 - 1:00 pm Alaska time
Bill Carter, Fish Biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge
Fish, unlike land animals, are hidden from our everyday view. To explore how fish use their habitat, where they lay eggs, and where they migrate, scientists use a variety of active and passive tags and chemistry to determine where fish are going, and where they have been. Join us to explore how these different methods unlock the life history of whitefish in Alaska, particularly Sii, Sheefish or Inconnu (Stenodus leucichthys) in the Kotzebue Sound region of Northwest Alaska.
Webinar
Webinar Recording - Where Do Fish Go?
Educational Resources
Other links about fish tagging:
- Pacific Cod Tagging (PACT) in Alaskan waters with Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags
- Tracking Cod in the Aleutian Islands
- NOAA and Savoonga Track Cod During First-Of-Its-Kind Collaboration
- Seawatch: Satellite tags reveal new info on P-cod
- Alaska Groundfish Tagging Map
Please contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring for more information.
March 28, 2023 - Where Do Seals Go? Marine Mammal Research by the Native Village of Kotzebue
Tuesday, March 28 2023 - 1:00 pm Alaska time
Alex Whiting, Native Village of Kotzebue Environmental Program, and Michael Cameron, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center
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Marine mammals (seals and whales) are at the core of the heritage of the Iñupiaq people of Kotzebue (Qikiqtaġruŋmiut) as important subsistence and cultural resources. How does the Native Village of Kotzebue work with partners, including NOAA, on marine mammal research in order to find out more about marine mammals in the Kotzebue area? Where do seals go, and how healthy are the seals and whales? How many are there, and how does climate change affect them? Join us to learn how the Native Village of Kotzebue has been a leader in co-developing marine mammal research with federal, state, non-governmental organization and academic partners to answer these questions. Many of the achievements were the first in marine mammal science, like live capture and satellite tagging of bearded seals off Alaska. The Tribe continues to cooperate with its members and partners to research the marine mammals that are foundational to the Qikiqtaġruŋmiut way of life.
Webinar
Webinar Recording: Where Do Seals Go?
Special Q&A Recording: Questions from "Where Do Seals Go" Webinar
Educational Resources
NOAA Live! Alaska video: Healthy Subsistence Resources - Alaska Native Tribal Affairs Program
NOAA Live! Alaska video: The Subsistence Lifestyle of the Qikiqtagruk Inupiat
- Weaving Indigenous Knowledge into the Scientific Method - Nature, January 2022
Protected Threatened Ice Seals - video
Developing Artificial Intelligence to Find Ice Seals and Polar Bears from the Sky
Ice-Associated Seal Ecology Research Survey in the Bering Sea - science field blog
Please contact Lisa Hiruki-Raring for more information.