Little is known about the long-loved, oily subsistence fish known as hooligan. The only ongoing research on Southeast Alaska hooligan is the result of a nine-year study by the Chilkoot Indian Association.
Subsistence
In Utqiaġvik, learning about climate change includes studying your backyard
“They get the traditional, ecological perspective on sea ice and how it’s changing and shifting from the whaling crews and whaling captains,” teacher Kevin Neyhard said. “And then … we drill cores through the ice to learn about it from that perspective.”
In Utqiaġvik, temperatures are warmer, and the ice is changing. What does that mean for whalers?
“I think it was a little more stable, and there was a little bit more assurance that the ice you were on was not going to disintegrate on you that easy,” says whaling captain Gordon Brower.
In death, beached Turnagain Arm humpback offers research samples, clues and food
A humpback whale that beached in Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage has died. Biologists say it is an uncommon location for a humpback, and they are now studying its death.
Marie Adams Carroll became a ‘folk hero’ fighting for Iñupiat whaling rights. Now she’s in the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame.
Asking around about Marie Adams Carroll in Utqiaġvik, it’s clear that the things she’s done on the North Slope will be remembered long after she retires.
Juneau students on exchange get a taste of life in Western Alaska
Juneau middle schoolers traveled to Western Alaska last month as part of a sister school exchange that aims to bridge the gap between urban and rural Alaska.