Fall Frenzy: Providing Information for Ecosystem Research and Fishery Management
By Ivonne Ortiz and Thomas Van Pelt
While the fashion world has Vogue’s famous September Issue, the Alaskan fisheries management world has the less-famous but very consequential “Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation Report”, aka the SAFE Report, led by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC).
Now Accepting Applications for the CICOES Summer Intern Program
Program Dates: June 20 – August 18, 2023
Summer research opportunities are available for 12-14 undergraduate interns through the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Sciences (CICOES).
Scientists ‘Optimistic’ About Improving Drought Conditions in Washington
By Quinn Welsch, The Spokesman-Review
The drought afflicting Washington is loosening its grip amid a wet winter.
A Possible Way to Reduce Porpoise Bycatch will be Explored This Year
By Jasz Garrett, KINY Radio
News of the North asked a research scientist about ways to prevent Southeast porpoises from dying in accidental bycatch.
Warming Oceans Have Decimated Marine Parasites – But That’s Not a Good Thing
By Hannah Hickey, UW News
More than a century of preserved fish specimens offer a rare glimpse into long-term trends in parasite populations.
Puget Sound Fish Are Carrying Fewer Parasites – and That’s Not A Good Thing
By Isabella Breda, The Seattle Times
Katherine Maslenikov carefully plucked a young walleye pollock specimen from a glass jar full of ethyl alcohol.
Our 2022 CICOES Magazine is Now Available
We are please to share the new addition of CICOES Magazine with you. This publication summarizes our year’s activities, profiles CICOES employees, and highlights recent research efforts.
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Harbor Porpoises in Southeast Alaska Consist of at Least Two Populations
Scientists produced first abundance estimates for the newly identified populations and assessed potential impacts from gillnet fishing.
See article at NOAA Fisheries
Catching Up With Our Intern Alumni
Karen Valladares and Her Journey to Graduate School
By Jed Thompson, CICOES Magazine
A lot has changed for Karen Valladares since she was a CICIOES intern in 2017.
Human-Caused Climate Change Fuels Warmer, Wetter, Stormier Arctic
2022 Arctic Report Card features Indigenous observations and knowledge
By NOAA Communications,
A typhoon, smoke from wildfires and increasing rain are not what most imagine when thinking of the Arctic.