Published Jun 17, 2024 by Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon

As the climate warms, more Pacific salmon from Alaska are showing up in the Western Arctic waters of Canada.

But residents in those Arctic Canadian communities are not catching salmon every year, which led them to ask why.

Now a study by scientists from Canada and Alaska has described the ocean gateway that must open to bring salmon from the Bering Sea to those far-north sites.

Published Jun 15, 2024 by Colin A. Warren

Last week a team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers arrived in Nome to launch the third year of a study that seeks to study sea ice retreat and chart phytoplankton in the northern Bering Sea.

The Arctic Airborne Investigations and Research mission, AIR for short, aims to collect data that - among other research objectives - will be used to help predict harmful algal blooms, HABs for short.

The pivot to focus more on biology occurred thanks to the work of environmental planner Emma Pate of Norton Sound Health Corporation's Office of Environmental Health and Gay Sheffield of UAF and Alaska Sea Grant, both in Nome.

Published Jun 17, 2024 by Alexander von Hafften and Lindsay Lodis

Alaska is facing a physician shortage. In December 2023, the Health Resources and Services Administration ranked Alaska 48th in meeting primary medical needs (21.85%), 22nd for dental needs being met (34.98%), and 48th for mental health needs being met (11.90%).

In order to increase physicians practicing in Alaska, we need to increase graduate medical education (GME) opportunities.