May 10, 2020
2019 data analyzed for preliminary results of migration study By Teal Barmore, May 11, 2020 During the summer of 2015, the commercial fishing community in Cordova, […]
May 6, 2020
Ideal conditions for a large year class, but don’t get your hopes up…yet. By Lauren Bien, May 6, 2020 PWSSC Research Ecologist, Pete Rand, returned to […]
April 27, 2020
Science Center’s Focus on Resilience Reflected in New Research Plan By Teal Barmore, April 27, 2020 The theme of resilience emanates from the new research plan […]
April 24, 2020
Undeterred by pandemic, construction project nears funding goal By Zachary Snowdon Smith, April 14, 2019 for The Cordova Times Feature Photo: Prince William Sound Science Center’s harborside […]
March 31, 2020
Salmon researchers participate in Copper River Basin Symposium and Copper River Salmon Harvesters Roundtable By Teal Barmore, March 30, 2020 In late February, Prince William Sound […]
March 30, 2020
Where are the herring going? By Arissa Pearson, March 30, 2020 Implanting Prince William Sound fish with acoustic tags has opened up a new realm of […]
March 27, 2020
Dear Friends, We are thinking of you and your loved ones, as well as everyone impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. The ramifications within our communities will, […]
March 23, 2020
Hydroacoustic spawning biomass surveys of Pacific herring By Teal Barmore, March 23, 2020 Every spring, researchers from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) and the […]
March 16, 2020
Cordova’s Backstreet Buoys have another great showing at Alaska’s Tsunami Bowl By Lauren Bien March 16, 2020 Cordova’s team, The Backstreet Buoys, made another impressive appearance […]
February 27, 2020
Discovering ocean habitat use by seabirds during winter thanks to advances in tracking technology By Teal Barmore, February 27, 2020 Researchers at Prince William Sound Science […]
February 10, 2020
PWSSC and U.S. Forest Service Lead Hikers to Sheridan Glacier By Zachary Snowdon Smith, February 2, 2020 for The Cordova Times Photo by Zachary Snowdon Smith For […]
January 30, 2020
Where have all the researchers gone? By Arissa Pearson, January 28, 2020 Monday mornings are normally full of researchers running around getting prepared for the week, […]
January 28, 2020
SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS USE SNOWSHOES, TRIPODS, AND CAMERAS TO EXPLORE THE NIGHT SKY By Nicole Webster, January 28, 2020 Earlier this month, despite single-digit temperatures and […]
January 17, 2020
Field work for Hatchery-Wild has been extended for another year By Arissa Pearson, January 17, 2020 Feature photo by Pete Rand December 2019 brought news that […]
January 16, 2020
Current facility plagued by cramped lab space, wobbly dock pilings By Zachary Snowdon Smith, October 27, 2019 for The Cordova Times Feature Photo: Oceanographer Rob Campbell […]
January 16, 2020
Donations from residents will help build new campus By Zachary Snowdon Smith, January 12, 2020 for The Cordova Times Photo by Teal Barmore Prince William Sound Science […]
December 30, 2019
Top News Features 1) HATCHERY WILD FIELD SEASON 2019 FIELD SEASON MARKED BY LOW FLOW AND HIGH PRE-SPAWN MORTALITY It was a strange summer for the […]
December 27, 2019
Making a case for herring research: 2019 Synthesis presents disease tracking breakthroughs and environmental correlations By Teal Barmore, December 27, 2019 The Prince William Sound Science […]
December 5, 2019
New Discovery Room theme connects second grade students to their food By Teal Barmore, December 5, 2019 Second grade students at Mt. Eccles Elementary shifted in […]
November 22, 2019
PWSSC Research Assistant to use her bird research skills in the Southern Hemisphere By Teal Barmore, November 25, 2019 Photos by Anne Schaefer Prince William Sound […]
November 14, 2019
Field Season Marked by Low Flow and High Pre-spawn Mortality By Teal Barmore, November 13, 2019 Aerial photo by Brad von Wichman It was a strange […]
October 24, 2019
Marine Temperatures Anomalies Doubled Previous Records By Teal Barmore, October 24, 2019 A mild winter followed by an abnormally calm and sunny summer this year led […]
October 17, 2019
Copper River Sockeye Salmon Project Motivated by its Potential to Inform Management in the Face of a Changing Climate By Teal Barmore, October 17, 2019 During […]
September 24, 2019
By Kinsey Justa, September 24, 2019 Last week, Prince William Sound Science Center staff hosted visitors from the Russian Far East. This group of six visitors […]
September 12, 2019
By Kinsey Justa, September 12, 2019 It’s back to school for children in Cordova! The Prince William Sound Science Center is committed to building resilience […]
August 21, 2019
By Kinsey Justa, August 21, 2019 Monitoring and understanding the rich diversity of biological resources in Prince William Sound is an important part of the Prince […]
July 22, 2019
By Kinsey Justa, July 22, 2019 During the summer months, Cordova’s seasonal population grows significantly and not just with people. Each year an influx of Glaucous-winged […]
July 5, 2019
By Kinsey Justa, July 5, 2019 Prince William Sound Science Center scientists Kristen Gorman and Anne Schaefer recently returned from Middleton Island where they were retrieving […]
June 21, 2019
By Kinsey Justa, June 21, 2019 Among the many engaging education programs at PWSSC, perhaps one of the more unique is the hands-on ROV program. An […]
May 16, 2019
By Kinsey Justa, May 16, 2019 Earlier this month, Dr. Rob Campbell and his team of seasonal research technicians set the lower Copper River sonars […]
April 16, 2019
Herring Return Earlier and more Abundant than Expected By Teal Barmore, April 16, 2019 Researchers in the Herring Research and Monitoring (HRM) program were caught off […]
March 27, 2019
High-Pressure Systems Lead to Warm Water in the North Pacific By Teal Barmore, March 27, 2019 Abnormally warm sea surface temperatures across the North Pacific have […]
March 12, 2019
The Rapid Growth and Decline of the Caspian Tern Colony on the Copper River Delta By Teal Barmore, March 12, 2019 The discovery of a Caspian […]
March 12, 2019
PWSSC Finalizes Land Purchase for a New Location March 12, 2019 Did you know the Science Center occupies eight rented facilities in Cordova? After nearly 30 […]
March 12, 2019
Cordova Team Places First in Project Portion of NOSB March 12, 2019 The all-female National Ocean Sciences Bowl team, coached by PWSSC Education Director, Lauren […]
February 25, 2019
The culmination of another successful year for the Copper River Stewardship Program February 25, 2019 Eight students from the 2018 Copper River Stewardship Program presented at the Alaska […]
February 25, 2019
Tagging Research Produced Interesting Results By Teal Barmore, February 25, 2019 Deep in the waters of Prince William Sound; large, light gray-brown fish with blotches and […]
February 13, 2019
Maya Groner Shares All There is to Love About her Ichthyophonus Research By Teal Barmore, February 13, 2019 Icthyophonus is a pathogen that affects the heart and […]
January 25, 2019
PWSSC researchers benefit from opportunities to present and network at AMSS By Teal Barmore, January 25, 2019 At the end of January, researchers from the Prince […]
January 14, 2019
Aerial herring surveys show record low biomass By Teal Barmore, January 14, 2019 The white color of herring milt allows researchers to use its prevalence as […]
December 12, 2018
***The point of contact for these moorings is Mary Anne Bishop (907) 424-5800 x 228 or Ben Gray (907) 424-5800 x 234 *** To download the […]
November 26, 2018
OSRI Celebrates 20 years of Funding Research By Teal Barmore, November 26, 2018 If you have been to our location on Breakwater Avenue in Cordova, you […]
November 5, 2018
New Funding adds Phytoplankton Monitoring to Prince William Sound Oceanographic Monitoring Program By Teal Barmore, November 5th, 2018 With new funding from the North Pacific Research […]
October 25, 2018
Discovery Room introduces more Cordova students than ever this year to their sense of place. By Teal Barmore For 26 years, Prince William Sound Science Center’s education […]
October 10, 2018
Prince William Sound Science Center researchers Dr. Kristen Gorman and Anne Schaefer spent two weeks at the end of July and beginning of August on Middleton […]
October 10, 2018
By Teal Barmore, October 10, 2019 Seventy miles offshore in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska, at the edge of the continental shelf, sits Middleton […]
September 13, 2018
Dr. Pete Rand publishes work on Prince William Sound Pacific herring’s response to predators. By Teal Barmore The spring spawning event of Pacific herring in Prince […]
August 23, 2018
[one_third_last] When? Friday, October 5 5:30 to 7:30 PM [/one_third_last] [one_third_last] Where? Simon & Seafort’s Room 49 420 L Street Anchorage, AK 99501 [/one_third_last] […]
August 16, 2018
By Lindsay Phillips Lauren Bien, education coordinator for the Science Center is wrapping up another eventful summer full of programs for children of all ages, including: […]
August 15, 2018
By Lindsay Phillips and Pete Rand The Prince William Sound Science Center has recently started field sampling for the 2018 season of the Alaska Hatchery Research Project […]
May 28, 2018
By Dr. Kristen Gorman Photos by Teal Barmore As part of the Herring Research and Monitoring (HRM) Program, a collaborative group of scientists from Prince William Sound Science […]
May 21, 2018
Photo Highlights by Teal Barmore For the third year in a row, researchers from the Prince William Sound Science Center and Tufts University captured, sampled, and […]
May 21, 2018
Photo Highlights by Dr. Rob Campbell Dr. Rob Campbell and his two technicians, April Richards and Kevin Absil, installed the lower Copper River sonar station in mid-May, a project […]
May 1, 2018
By Dr. Mary Anne Bishop Photos by Ben Gray unless otherwise noted. Pacific herring, a small forage fish, has long been considered sensitive to handling. As a result, there […]
April 17, 2018
David Janka has been doing acoustic biomass surveys with the Prince William Sound Science Center since 2007. This spring during the spawning biomass surveys he covered 713 nautical […]
April 15, 2018
Last weekend, Dr. Rob Campbell deployed a new weather buoy in western PWS, about five miles due east of Naked Island. The buoy was deployed as […]
March 20, 2018
From March 27 to 29, researchers and educators from the Prince William Sound Science Center will be presenting their work to other researchers, decision makers, and […]
March 1, 2018
Join us for some hands-on adventuring that is sure to get your preschooler thinking like a scientist! Who: Kids ages 3-5 (Caregivers must attend) Where: Education Room […]
February 27, 2018
For the last 10 years, the Prince William Sound Science Center has maintained underwater acoustic arrays, a technology to tag and track marine animals, in Prince […]
February 27, 2018
Imagine this: You’re sitting at a table with three teammates; the opposing team sits at the table next to yours. Both teams sit quietly, […]
January 31, 2018
Join the conversation on the future of bird tagging on the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) blog. Representatives from COASST will be in Cordova […]
January 19, 2018
On Monday January 22, Prince William Sound Science Center staff will join over 700 scientists, educators, resource managers, students, and members of the public for Alaska’s […]
December 5, 2017
Do you like to visit shorelines around Cordova? Are you interested in seabirds and helping collect data that can support scientists’ ability to evaluate changes in […]
October 16, 2017
Our education team is excited to announce a new, monthly series: CORDOVA SEA SQUIRTS! Join us for some hands-on adventuring that is sure to get your […]
October 11, 2017
This new film explores “The Blob,” a warm water anomaly that started in the Gulf of Alaska and later spread up and down the coast of […]
September 22, 2017
By Robin Mayo, for The Cordova Times As the school year begins, Copper River Stewardship Program participants are completing their final projects inspired by their summer […]
June 21, 2017
Prince William Sound Science Center researchers work on the front lines of climate change to address the most pressing salmon issues of our time. Related […]
June 7, 2017
OIL SPILLS. EARTHQUAKES. CLIMATE CHANGE. MELTING GLACIERS. FIRES. ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS. VANISHED FISHERIES. We’ve been through a lot here amongst the world’s richest waters. Yet, through generations, […]
June 6, 2017
Discover Cordova-Connecting kids to their natural environment with exploration, science, and fun. Discover Cordova, a Prince William Sound Science Center educational program, is designed to […]
April 18, 2017
Earth Day is on April 22, 2017, which coincides with the Science Center’s 28th anniversary. We wanted to highlight and share this drawing that research assistant, […]
March 10, 2017
By Lauren Bien, for The Cordova Times The Copper River Watershed: one of the last remaining intact watersheds in North America, 26,500 square miles of diverse […]
February 6, 2017
We’re grateful. In these uncertain times, so many of you have showed up recently to support our work in the world’s richest waters. Thank you. Generating […]
October 31, 2016
The Herring Research and Monitoring program is conducting aerial surveys during June and July for forage fish in Prince William Sound. The focus of the June […]
October 11, 2016
We are please to announce that Lauren Bien joined our staff in August 2015. She has a bachelor’s degree in marine biology from Wittenberg University in […]
August 25, 2016
Registration in now open for the Alaska Bird Conference! The first Alaska Bird Conference was held in 1985, in Anchorage. It grew from the often-expressed need […]
August 22, 2016
Originally published in the 9/5/16 edition of The Cordova Times. When asked about the similarities between Cordova and her home in Russia, she laughed as she […]
August 9, 2016
In explaining the importance of this project, Schaefer says that “monitoring seabirds tells something about what’s happening in the ocean.” Scientists often use indicator species as […]
August 1, 2016
We’re excited to announce that today kickstarts our 2016 Photo Contest, which will run from August 1st-31st! The Prince William Sound Science Center is committed to […]
July 21, 2016
From the sky scrapers of New York City to the mountain-scraping glaciers of Alaska, a visiting class of budding photographers recently joined Science Center researchers on […]
July 19, 2016
An epic journey ended on the banks of the Copper River earlier this month. Thirteen high school students and ten adults completed a ten-day adventure from […]
July 14, 2016
At the end of June, staff and board members of the Rasmuson Foundation visited the Prince William Sound Science Center to try their hands at research […]
July 1, 2016
In the darkest hour of the night, it uses a 3mm-wide lifeline to climb about 200 feet toward the surface of Prince William Sound. After it […]
May 27, 2016
The Prince William Sound Science Center has been running Discovery Room programs in the elementary school for more than 20 years. Currently, we work with grades 4th […]
May 5, 2016
Fish passage summaries: Daily Counts of Salmon Passage Hourly Counts of Salmon Passage *Note: Some browsers display a cached version of the file that is not up […]
April 12, 2016
Join us for an OPEN HOUSE, celebrating our 27th anniversary! Friday, April 22, 2016 4:00-6:00 PM At the Science Center, 300 Breakwater Avenue Meet our board of directors […]
August 12, 2015
With partial support from the Rasmuson Foundation, the PWS Science Center will be purchasing a Seal Analytical AutoAnalyzer3 (AA3) in autumn 2015. The AA3 is an […]
July 31, 2015
Biologists from the PWSSC and Tufts University are working to better understand how the distribution of gulls changes in response to salmon processing. Gulls are captured near […]
July 24, 2015
Julia McMahon joined the PWSSC as a full-time research technician in February 2015 and is currently working on two research projects focused on over-wintering energetics of […]
July 20, 2015
In early June, researchers from the Prince William Sound Science Center, in collaboration with Trent University, returned to Egg Island for the sixth time since 2006 […]
May 27, 2015
Click the headline above to access links to project info and up to date catch data. The project description is here: Hatchery Wild Salmon Interaction Study Photos […]
May 22, 2015
In-season management of the Copper River salmon fishery is difficult: the Copper River Delta is very braided near the ocean, and the first choke point where […]
May 15, 2015
The North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) has awarded over $415,000 to Dr. Rob Campbell and PWSSC for his project “High frequency observations of the secondary (zooplankton) […]
February 17, 2015
The warm winter Cordova is experiencing is also reflected in the surrounding ocean temperatures. Throughout the Gulf of Alaska water temperatures are setting new records. The […]
September 24, 2014
Tom Barrett, President of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company knows that to do something well, you have to care about it. With that concept in mind, […]
September 16, 2014
The Oil Spill Recovery Institute will begin reviewing the mission and goals of OSRI and revising the five-year research plan at the OSRI Advisory Board meeting […]
September 1, 2014
The Hatchery-Wild Ocean Test Fishery for 2014 has come to a close. Sampling began May 15th, and finished August 31st. Click the link below to access […]
July 28, 2014
In Prince William Sound, both wild and hatchery runs of pink and chum salmon are vital to the economy, with pink salmon being the largest of […]
July 22, 2014
Ocean Fishery Catch by Day Graphs The Hatchery-Wild Ocean Test Fishery began May 15, and continues on for the 2014 sampling season. To look at catch data, […]
June 25, 2014
In Prince William Sound and throughout the Gulf of Alaska, Pacific herring are a major prey species supporting larger fish, birds, and marine mammals. Herring build […]
June 25, 2014
The Herring Research and Monitoring program is conducting aerial surveys during June and July for forage fish in Prince William Sound. The focus of the June […]