Science & Tech

An army of citizen scientists assembled along Turnagain Arm Saturday to count endangered belugas near Anchorage.

A lawsuit says Facebook is misleading advertisers about just how effective it is. Facebook, which makes billions from ads, says it can’t guarantee that all of them will reach their intended targets.

The goal is to estimate the size of the island’s largely unmonitored fish populations.

There’s a whole host of environmental changes the project is examining, like the severity and frequency of forest fires, insect activity and wildlife migration.

Glacier Bay is the only place in Southeast Alaska where humpback whale numbers are monitored year after year. Anecdotal reports throughout Southeast tell a similar story: Humpback numbers have been down.

Sitka Sound Science Center is hosting researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz who are examining the forests in Sitka Sound.

The 120-foot research vessel Tiglax is sailing up to Cape Thompson for the first time in more than 20 years to look at seabird populations. Like it’s namesake the Aleut word for eagle, it covers vast stretches of Alaska, visiting refuges from Safety Sound and Topkok to Sitka Sound, from Cape Lisburne to the Pribilof Islands.

West Valley High School senior Megan Booysen is the lead author of the article published in Biodiversity Data Journal.

A science presentation may seem like a hard sell on a Saturday night… but less so if you turn it into a chance to eat and see friends. 

By examining small lines on the backs of salmon scales, researchers can determine the age of salmon returning to Bristol Bay. That information is crucial to fisheries management and forecasts.