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    The Seward Sleeper Sharks present during the 28th Annual Alaska Tsunami Bowl in the Seward High School Auditorium in Seward, Alaska, on Feb. 28, 2025. (Photo provided by Mica Van Buskirk)
    Seward teams earn 2nd, 4th place at Alaska...
    By Jacob Dye • April 17, 2025 1:30 am

    Seward students who competed this year were recognized Monday with a commending resolution by the Seward City Council.

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    The sign at the entrance of Kenai Peninsula College’s Kachemak Bay Campus is photographed on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Finn Heimbold/Homer News)
    Kachemak Bay Science Conference to take place this...
    By Emilie Springer • March 6, 2024 1:30 am

    The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is hosting the 10th Kachemak Science Conference March 17-20 at Kachemak Bay Campus….

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    Some of Homer's AMCC attendees on Tuesday Jan. 24 at the Denai'na Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Back row L to R: Emilie Springer, Nicole Webster, Katie Gavenus, Reid Brewer, Marilyn Sigman, Kim Schuster and Serena Tierra. Front row L to R: Donna Aderhold, Lily Westphal, Debbie Tobin, Kris Holdereid, Lauren Sutton and Dan Olsen.  There were several others in attendance not included in this photo.   Photo taken by conference attendant.
    Local scientists bring research to marine science symposium
    By Emilie Springer • February 2, 2023 9:05 am

    The 2023 Alaska Marine Science Symposium showcased marine research in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska

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    In a photo taken on Nov. 16, 2018, Aaron Carpenter holds a mammoth tooth he found on the beach north of Diamond Creek on Oct. 27, 2018, near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Three new finds add to ancient Homer bone...
    By McKibben Jackinsky • November 28, 2018 3:58 pm

    There was a time when scientists thought the southern Kenai Peninsula’s distant past, as in tens of thousands of years…

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    This photo from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows beluga whales arching their backs through the surface of the water. Of Alaska’s five distinct beluga whale populations, only Cook Inlet’s is listed as endangered. (Courtesy the Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
    Help count beluga whales on Sept. 15
    By Michael Armstrong • September 5, 2018 4:18 pm

    Belugas Count! day is Sept. 15. Citizen scientists can help marine biologists search for and count endangered Cook Inlet beluga…

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