Faculty Sherry Tamone mentored JDHS student Lia Domke, who won the Goldbelt Corporation “People’s Choice” Award, PEO (Philanthropic Educational Organization) Chapter D Award for Excellence, and the U S Office of Naval Research - Naval Science Award for Excellence for her poster at the local High School Science Fair on blue king crab physiology and climate change. Lia will travel to the national competition in San Jose, CA.

Sherry Tamone's Biology 106 students on a field trip in the Auke Bay intertidal.

Faculty David Tallmon had a paper accepted in the journal The Auk showing that we have a genetically distinct subspecies of spruce grouse, found only on the islands of Southeast Alaska. Tallmon was invited to teach at a workshop in May in Bhutan to build the capacity of Bhutan’s biologists to undertake long-term, non-invasive genetic monitoring of their biodiversity.

The UAS Marine Biology club is going to Sitka June 11- 13 for the BioBlitz and still has spots available for interested students. Students can contact Sherry Tamone, David Tallmon, or Carolyn Bergstrom for more information.