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Latest Stories – Sharing Research, Education, Wildlife Response, & Animal Care Stories From the ASLC Latest Stories Sharing Research, Education, Wildlife Response, & Animal Care Stories From the ASLC Menu Home ASLC Home WRITERS PUBLICATIONS POSTERS Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube Follow 60° North Science via Email Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Follow Join 99 other subscribers Categories Categories Select Category 20th Anniversary Animal Care Argos Behavior Career Changing Tides Chiswell Collaborators Conferences Conservation Contaminants Drones Editor’s Note Education Eiders Elephant Seals Fieldwork Fisheries From the Fellow Frontiers Human Dimensions IN FOCUS Intern Insights Laboratory LHX Management Modeling Necropsy New Project New Project! News NPRB Paper in a Nutshell Perspectives PHOCAS Physiology Podcast Population Dynamics Profiles Q&A Reblogged Post Research Retrospective Sea Birds Sea lion in the Spotlight Shark Week Sleeper Shark SSL Reproduction Students Telemetry Thoughts Training Uncategorized Veterinary Video Workshop Steller Insights: New Insights for the Chiswell Island Steller Sea Lion Monitoring team Dr. Maniscalco shares new findings from the Chiswell Island Steller Sea Lion Project, which included optimistic improvements in Steller sea lion survival and reproductive rates in the three most recent years, as well as an interesting new discovery that could adversely impact the population for years to come. Read More Steller Insights: New Insights for the Chiswell Island Steller Sea Lion Monitoring team CORaL Network’s Community Coastal Experience” Weaves Culture and Science Into a Unique Five-Week Internship Program The 2023 CCE group poses with members of the U.S. Forest Service dusky Canada goose monitoring team after learning how to analyze and collect data about a dusky Canada goose nest island site in the Copper River Delta near Cordova. Cordova, June 2023. The Alaska SeaLife Center is a proud member of the CORaL Network […] Read More CORaL Network’s Community Coastal Experience” Weaves Culture and Science Into a Unique Five-Week Internship Program A summer Well spent: Interning with the ASLC Wildlife Response Program 2023 Wildlife Response Season From the Eyes of Jordyn Collis, ASLC Summer Intern When I learned I would be coming to ASLC as a wildlife response Intern, I briefly worried, What if it’s a slow season and we don’t get many patients?” That fear was very quickly put to rest when I arrived in Seward, […] Read More A summer Well spent: Interning with the ASLC Wildlife Response Program Steller’s Eiders Join the aviary For the first time in the history of the Alaska SeaLife Center, a pair of Steller’s eiders — Prince and Bowie — have been released into the aviary. While Steller’s eiders were previously kept in behind-the-scenes habitats due to their involvement in sensitive research, new developments have allowed aviculturists to share this rare species of […] Read More Steller’s Eiders Join the aviary Overcoming the Odds: Tuq’s Journey from Rescue Patient to ASLC RESIDENT Now a staff and guest favorite, Asiqtuq Tuq” the harbor seal was brought to the Alaska SeaLife Center through the Wildlife Response Program. The call came on May 27, 2021, through the ASLC’s 24-hour Stranded Marine Animal Hotline (1-888-774-SEAL [7325]) concerning an abandoned seal pup near Tonsina Point, about three miles south of the Alaska […] Read More Overcoming the Odds: Tuq’s Journey from Rescue Patient to ASLC RESIDENT New Publication: Changes in Steller Sea Lion Winter Diets Following the Pacific Marine Heatwave Extreme climate events are being experienced worldwide, and Alaska ecosystems, unfortunately, have a front-row seat. Heatwaves, droughts, floods, and hurricanes, are having profound environmental impacts, and are expected to continue for decades to come. One of these extreme climate events, called the Pacific marine heatwave, occurred between 2014 and 2016. During this time, water temperatures […] Read More New Publication: Changes in Steller Sea Lion Winter Diets Following the Pacific Marine Heatwave Tidepooling: Embracing Alaska Through a Gentle Touch” In the Summer of 2022, I moved 5,000 miles from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Seward, Alaska; I had no permanent housing, no friends, and little familiarity with the state’s rugged landscape – only a determined spirit that I trust has guided me on the right path. The decision to move was prompted by the desire […] Read More Tidepooling: Embracing Alaska Through a Gentle Touch” Study on Spotted Seal Vocal Behavior Study Opens New Avenues for wild Research While most pinnipeds haul out on land to rest, give birth, and care for their young, Arctic dwelling seals rely instead on floating sea ice. Residing in harsh and remote territories, these seals have proven difficult to study in the wild, leaving many aspects of their behavior, physiology, and population status unknown. As the ice […] Read More Study on Spotted Seal Vocal Behavior Study Opens New Avenues for wild Research Body Building: Bulking up with male Steller Sea lions Pilot reached an important milestone this year, hitting 2,000 pounds on May 14, 2022 and reaching his top weight of 2,030 pounds on May 25, 2022. Only two ASLC resident Steller sea lions have reached the 2,000-pound milestone: Woody, the famous first male Steller to call ASLC home, and now Pilot. Pilot’s impressive weight change […] Read More Body Building: Bulking up with male Steller Sea lions ASLC Admits Two New Marine Mammal Patients The Wildlife Response Program patients include a young harbor seal and a sea otter pup The Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC) recently admitted two patients to the Wildlife Response Program, a young male harbor seal (the third admitted in 2022) and a male sea otter pup. The harbor seal pup was reported by the captain of […] Read More ASLC Admits Two New Marine Mammal Patients Beyond Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” There is no denying that plastic waste is a problem. Whether it’s trash scattered around the parking lot or 620,000 square miles of garbage gathering in the Pacific Ocean, plastic waste is everywhere. Between nearly fifty years of public service announcements and campaigns promoting the familiar Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle” slogan, many Americans have acknowledged […] Read More Beyond Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” What makes ringed seals so special? If you’ve never heard of a ringed seal, prepare for your life to be changed for the better! Mine certainly was when I met these amazing marine mammals for the first time. Before I started at the Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC), I thought ringed seals were just another seal species. They’d probably be cute and have […] Read More What makes ringed seals so special? Shedding Light on Molting Ice Seals By Juliana Kim, Mammalogist and PHOCAS research trainer We previously posted a blog about the PHOCAS project, a research program at the Alaska SeaLife Center that exemplifies how science and animal training can intersect to achieve conservation goals. The ‘Training for Science’ blog showcased several different ways in which our resident ringed and spotted seals […] Read More Shedding Light on Molting Ice Seals Sleeper Shark Science 2020 My forearms were starting to burn as hand over hand I pulled in the 950ft of line from the depths of Resurrection Bay. The first 3 lines we pulled in were empty, save for the salmon heads we used as bait, but this one sounded different. The whir of the hauler was a bit louder, […] Read More Sleeper Shark Science 2020 Being Individual Grey seal breeding colonies are stressful places. Hundreds or even thousands of females arrive on shore every autumn, jostling and moving about to find the perfect spot to give birth and nurse their pups. As the season progresses, pups begin to wander about, trying to avoid the hormonal males who are picking fights and waiting […] Read More Being Individual Where...