Strait Science
The Strait Science Series lectures are presented by Northwest ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ and to promote understanding between citizens of the Bering Strait region and the researchers who frequent the Seward Peninsula.
If you would like to participate/present in the lecture series, please contact , the local agent in Nome.
Current events
Past events
Call of the Arctic "Blue" Cod!
08/13/2026
Coastal Cameras: Keeping an Eye on Change
08/06/2026
Alaska Maritime Wildlife Refuge: Northern Seabird Survey
07/31/2026
Bering Strait Ship Traffic: Who, What, Where, When, & Why!
06/17/2026
Deep Draft Port of Nome Project: An Update!
06/11/2026
Avian Influenza: An Update on Alaska's Wildlife!
06/03/2026
The Geology of Graphite Creek
05/28/2026
Navigating Coastal Change: Community First in Sivuqaq
05/20/2026
Northern Bering Sea: Integrated Ecosystem Research Program
05/14/2026
Harmful Algal Bloom Toxins & Alaska's Seabirds
04/30/2026
Want to Make a Change? ADF&G & the BOG Process
04/23/2026
2025 Bowhead & Beluga Survey: Results & Next Steps
04/14/2026
Alaska's Aleutian Terns: How are They Doing?
04/09/2026
Seward Peninsula Tundra & Future Impacts
04/02/2026
Large Whale Surveys in the Bering Sea: Results!
03/26/2026
Ringed & Bearded Seals: ESA Listing and NOAA's Recovery Plan
03/18/2026
Counting Spectacled Eiders: Sea Ice to Tundra!
02/26/2026
US Marine Mammal Commission & the Bering Strait Region
02/18/2026
N. Bering Sea Surface Trawl Survey: 2025 Results!
02/12/2026
Springtime Ice Seal Haulout Behavior on Sea Ice
02/05/2026
Alaska Hare Research & Regulation Updates
01/29/2026
2025 Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Survey: Results!
01/22/2026
Mapping Kawerak Collections in Midwest Museums
01/14/2026
Western Alaska's Weather & Climate Through the Years
01/08/2026
USFWS Walrus Harvest Monitoring: Results!
12/17/2025
Pacific Walruses & How to Count Them – An Update!
12/11/2025
Ocean Acidification & the Bering Strait Region
12/04/2025
The Action Cruise: Applied Science + Community Engagement
11/13/2025
Beluga Research: Fitness, Photography, & the Future
11/06/2025
Regional Weather: A Recap, an Outlook, and Extreme Events
10/21/2025
Coastal Freeze-Up + Storms: Future Impacts
10/17/2025
Cruise Ships in Nome: Input from Residents and Ship Tourists
10/10/2025
Harmful Algal Bloom Activity in Western + Northern Alaska
10/06/2025
Teamwork at Sea: Live from R/V Sikuliaq!
08/28/2025
Bowhead Whales: Linking Ocean Warming to Algal Toxin Change
08/14/2025
US & Canada: Shared Research in the Northern Bering + Chukchi Seas
07/16/2025
Arctic Watch: Vessel Traffic Management
06/16/2025
Western Alaska Weather: What Happened This Winter?
06/05/2025
NOAA Office of Coast Survey & the Bering Strait Region
05/29/2025
Bumble Bees of the Nome Area!
05/22/2025
Avian Influenza in Alaskan Wildlife - And Beyond
04/24/2025
Gnawing & Thawing: Beavers Reshaping the Tundra
04/16/2025
Port of Nome Modifications: An Update!
04/10/2025
Looking for Large Whales: 2017-2024 IWC Survey Results!
04/03/2025
Ice Seal Aerial Survey: Spring 2025 Plans
03/26/2025
Bering Land Bridge: Grazing Plains or Buggy Bogs?
03/19/2025
Sea Ice Timing & Coastal Flood Risk: Changes for Nome!
03/13/20205
Northern Bering Sea Surface Trawl Survey: 2024 Results
02/27/2025
Moose Near Nome: A GMU 22C + 22D Update
02/19/2025
Spectacular Shorebird Migrations
02/13/2025
Teamwork at the Point Lay Walrus Haulout
02/06/2025
The Indigenous Arctic Dog: Living History
01/30/2025
US Special Operation Forces & the Bering Strait Region
01/23/2025
2024 Norton Sound / Yukon River Delta Beluga Survey: Results!
01/15/2025
UAF International Arctic Research Center: Online Climate Tools
01/09/2025
Muskox Movements
12/18/2024
Bering Strait Ship Traffic: Trends & Policy Options
12/12/2024
2024 Eastern "Southern" Bering Sea Trawl Survey: Results!
12/05/2024
US Marine Mammal Commission and the Bering Strait Region
11/20/2024
Coastal Wave Exposure in Northern Alaska
11/07/2024
2024 Summer: Wild & Wacky! What's Next...?
10/24/2024
Ice Seal Research: 2024 Results + 2025 Plans
10/16/2024
Long Term Experiments to Predict the Future Arctic
09/24/2024
Airborne Algal Research: Help from Above?
09/18/2024
Sikuliaq Returns: A Report on the Northern Ecosystem!
08/27/2024
Oculus Ocean Drone - An Update!
08/22/2024
Permafrost Thaw: Perma-X Research from Above
08/08/2024
US Coast Guard Command Center: Saving Lives at Sea
06/27/2024
Pacific Walrus Population Estimate - Underway!
05/30/2024
NOAA Gets Strait to the Point! Lessons Learned from the Coast
05/23/2024
By Sea + By Air: Finding Whales in the Bering Sea
05/15/2024
Pacific Halibut: N. Bering Sea Residents?
05/02/2024
Western Alaska Chums: Winter Secrets Revealed
04/17/2024
Avian Influenza: An Update!
03/28/2024
Nonstop Across the Pacific: Bar-Tailed Godwits' Incredible Flight!
03/20/2024
Hydroponics & Heat Pumps in the North
03/01/2024
Subarctic & Arctic Fisheries: Future Thoughts
02/22/2024
NBS Ecosystem & Surface Trawl Survey - 2023 Results!
02/12/2024
2023: Northern Bering Sea Status Report
01/17/24
Walruses: Under Review!
01/11/2024
Arctic ROADmaps for Science Collaboration
12/21/2023
Bering Strait: New Seafloor Map - New Info!
12/14/2023
Bowhead Migration: Changes in Timing
12/07/2023
Microplastics in Bering Strait Spotted Seals?!
11/30/2023
2023 Northern Bering Sea Survey: What Did They Find?
11/09/2023
Walruses, Tusk-Tagging, & Modeling the Future
11/02/2023
Western Alaska's Summer: What Happened?!
10/26/2023
Ice Seals: Research Plans for 2024
10/18/2023
Sikuliaq Returns: News from the Sea!
10/05/2023
Pacific Cod: Travels in the Northern Bering Sea
08/22/2023
Bering Strait: Harmful Algal Bloom Update
07/20/2023
Pacific Golden Plovers: Small Bird - Mighty Traveler!
06/29/2023
Bering Sea Salmon Sharks: An Update!
06/14/2023
Subarctic Baleen Whales in Bering Strait: Visitors or returning home?
05/31/2023
Bering Land Bridge: Research into the Past
05/26/2023
Into the Arctic: NOAA Coast Survey
05/18/2023
Radio In Western Alaska
05/04/2023
Pacific Walruses: Responding to Change?
04/27/2023
Avian Influenza in Wildlife
04/13/2023
Harmful Algae and Seabirds
03/30/2023
Winter of Discontent: Winter 2022-2023 Recap
03/23/2023
USCG: Bering Strait Pollution Response Exercise
03/22/2023
Reindeer in the North: NWC HLRM Arctic Exchange
03/14/2023
Arctic Deep Draft Port: An Update
03/09/2023
Seabirds and the Changing Northern Bering Sea
03/02/2023
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center: Reaching Out!
02/21/2023
Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook: A Review!
02/15/2023
US Arctic Strategy & the Bering Strait Region
02/09/2023
King of the Skies: Emperor Geese Overhead
02/01/2023
Red King Crab Fisheries: Norton Sound Chimes In
01/18/2023
Commercial Fishing Safety in Norton Sound
01/12/2023
Gyrfalcons on the Seward Peninsula
01/05/2023
Micro Nuclear Reactors: Alternative Power?
12/13/2022
Seward Peninsula Muskoxen: Following Cows & Calves
12/08/2022
Hot Topic! Growing Back After Tundra Fires
12/01/2022
Beyond Bering Strait: Where Does the Water Go?
11/15/2022
NBS Surface Trawl Survey: Results from Top to Bottom!
11/10/2022
2022 Bottom Trawl Survey: What Did They Find?
11/04/2022
Wild Weather Palooza: 2022 Weather Review & Outlook
10/27/2022
Always Ready, Always Present: US Coast Guard in the Arctic
10/20/2022
High Water Marks: Documenting 2022 Bering Sea Storm
10/13/2022
The Changing Arctic: Co-Production to Influence Policy
10/11/2022
Tundra be Dammed! Beavers of the Arctic
10/06/2022
Tech Innovations in Alaska's Oil Spill Response
09/29/2022
Harmful Algae in Western AK: 2022 Bloom Event
09/16/2022
Young Hunters: Walrus Summit - Navigating to a Bright Future
08/25/2022
NOAA's Arctic Goals
08/18/2022
Belugas in Norton Sound: How Do We Count 'Em - and Why?
08/11/2022
2022 NOAA Trawl Survey: A Mid-Survey Update
08/04/2022
Seward Peninsula: A Wetter Or Drier Future?
07/20/2022
A Smoky Start to July: How Did Far Away Fumes Arrive?
07/14/2022
Honoring Heroes: Rescue By Gambell Guardsmen
07/07/2022
Bering Strait Birds: Avian Flu + Die-Off Events
05/26/2022
Sea Ice Radar: Coming to Nome!
05/18/2022
Bering Sea Ice Seals: Researchers Return!
05/11/2022
Oculus Gliders: Drones Off Nome's Shores
04/28/2022
The Shark Side: Meet Our Salmon Shark
04/17/2022
Wild Weather Winter '21-'22 in Western AK
04/07/2022
Harmful Algae, The Arctic Food Web + Summer 2019
03/31/2022
Ice Seals: Research in the New North
03/24/2022
Right On The Brink: North Pacific Right Whales
03/10/2022
Update: McKay's Bunting Alaska's Island Songbird
02/16/2022
Jackrabbits of the North
02/10/2022
Counting Walruses: The View from Above
02/03/2022
The NMFS RAP: Give Input on Future Research Needs
01/27/2022
Troops In Nome: AK National Guard Arctic Eagle 2022
01/13/2022
USCG, Tribes, + The Bering Strait Region
12/09/2021
Sikuliaq Returns: November 2021 Report from the North
12/02/2021
2021 Surface Trawl Survey: Partnering for New Data
11/11/2021
2021 Bottom Trawl Survey: What Did They Find?
11/04/2021
Summer 2021: What Happened and Why?
10/28/2021
Will Gyrfalcons Stay?: Habitat, Diet, + Climate Change
10/21/2021
North to the Chukchi Sea: Warming Waters + Toxic Algae "Seeds"
10/14/2021
Bones Tell Stories: The Shaktoolik Archaeology Project
10/07/2021
Naval Research: Testing New Tools in the North
09/23/2021
It's in Their Bones: Walruses Past and Present
09/09/2021
NOAA + Coastal Tribes: Marine Research Coordination
08/26/2021
Arctic Raptors: Balancing Diets Amidst Change
08/18/2021
Research At Sea: Joining Forces in the North
08/12/2021
Live From R/V Sikuliaq: Mercury and Shrinking Ice
06/10/2021
Pieces of History: The Shaktoolik Archaeology Project
06/03/2021
Bering Sea Heat "Bombs"
05/27/2021
Arctic Research Plan: How You Can Contribute
05/19/2021
Bering Strait Weather 2020 Re-Cap / 2021 Outlook
05/12/2021
Which Loon? This Loon!
05/06/2021
Diomede's Auklets + the 2015-206 Marine Heatwave
04/29/2021
Rural Research Wins! 2020 Norton Sound King Crab Survey
04/22/2021
USCG: Protecting Alaska's Resources for the Future
04/14/2021
Alaskan Ice Seals: Rehab to Research
04/08/2021
Whales, Seals, + Walruses: Listening to Track Migration
04/01/2021
Rabid Foxes: Protect Your Kids + Pets
03/24/2021
Ice Seals: Research in the New North
03/19/2021
Spectacled Eiders: Responding to Low-Ice Habitat
02/25/2021
Endangered Species Act: Critical Habitat, Regional Animals, and You
02/19/2021
USCG Polar Star Patrol Off Western and Northern Alaska
02/12/2021
Responding to Warming Waters: Seabirds at Sea
02/11/2021
Seafloor Mapping: Evolving Technology for a New North
01/22/2021
Ocean Algae in Warming Regional Seas
01/14/2021
Bering Strait Oceanography: Local Partnership
01/07/2021
Ocean Drones: Counting Bering Sea Pollock
12/10/2020
Seward Peninsula: Gyrfalcons
12/03/2020
Pink Salmon: Adapting to Warming Waters
11/12/2020
Winter 2020 Outlook: Sea Ice & Climate
10/29/2020
Alaska Seabirds & Harmful Algal Blooms
10/22/2020
Ecosystem Field Update: Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas
10/01/2020
Bering Strait Trash Talk: A Notable International Event
09/24/2020
Yellow-Billed Loons: Revealing Environmental Secrets
09/17/2020
Aleutian Terns: Who Is The "Other" Alaskan Tern
09/03/2020
Gray Whale Diet: Can Northern Bering Sea Still Feed 'em?
08/19/2020
Bering Strait Seabird Die-off: Partnering In Search Of Answers
08/13/2020
Pacific Cod: Winter Travels From The Bering Strait Region
07/28/2020
Chukchi Sea: Fin Whales What Brings Them North?
07/23/2020
Bering Strait Weather: Winter Recap, Summer Outlook
05/28/2020
Savoonga Seabirds: Clues To The Die-Off
03/30/2020
Chasing Arctic Cod: R/V Sikuliaq Reports Back
03/12/2020
Walruses, Grey Whales, & Eiders: Are Their Food Options Changing?
02/05/2020
2019 Fisheries Survey: What Did They Find?
11/07/2019
Sikuliaq Heads North: Storms, Ice, And The Food Chain
11/05/2019
Winter Sea Ice And Climate Outlook
10/24/2019