Discover Active Learning
Each week Alaska Pacific University invites different members of its community to host it’s take-over Instagram account, @makingmovesatAKpacific, to show what a week at APU looks like through the eyes (and lens) of students, faculty, and staff. Since spring graduation, we’ve had a number of community members host the account to document their summer activities. Some stayed…
At 10:30AM on Friday, March 9th, FAST lab grad student Ben Jevons received an urgent email from Melissa Good, a Marine Advisory Agent of Sea Grant in Dutch Harbor. It read: “A fisherman here has a tote full of octopus for you. I don’t have time to work them up. What would you like us…
Student Royanne Grafstrom-Westlund recently scored the opportunity to attend the Aquatic Animal Life Support Operators conference on a student scholarship following an exemplary score on the AALSO level one certification, in conjunction with her experiences in the aquarium lab. The AALSO conference has long been an opportunity for those in the aquarium business to share…
Words by Anita Kroska, APU student In November 2017, Fisheries, Aquatic Science, and Technology (FAST) Laboratory members Dr. Nathan Wolf, Sarah Webster, Anita Kroska, Sioned Sitziewicz, and Brian Ritchie travelled to Saint Malo— a historic fortified city on the northern coast of France— to present their work on Pacific halibut at the International Flatfish Symposium….
Scientists (including an APU professor) have recently discovered an octopus “city” off the eastern coast of Australia, a find that suggests members of that species, Octopus tetricus, may not be as isolated and asocial as originally thought. Known as Octlantis, the settlement made of discarded shells is the second of its kind. In the 10…
Professor David Scheel’s internationally recognized octopus research took him to Cairns, Australia, this summer where he participated in a conference and joined a colleague for a bit of recreational diving at Manly, just outside Sydney. David sends this post card: At nearly 5 million people, Sydney is Australia’s biggest and most densely populated city. Our…
Getting to Know APU’s Visiting Fulbright Scholar: Jay Calvert by Miriam Mezzetti Alaska Pacific University is proud of its remarkable faculty and students. With the quality, personalized educational experience here, we often attract some of the best and brightest students and faculty: not only nationally, but internationally! Jay Calvert, a Fulbright-Marine Institute PhD student awardee,…
By David Scheel The Alaska Octopus Project of Alaska Pacific University is the apparently the first to report sea star wasting syndrome in Prince William Sound, AK. The Alaska Octopus Project has surveyed octopus abundance and other marine life in Prince William Sound since 1995. Remains of diseased sea stars were found at two locations,…
By Brad Harris, Professor of Marine Biology In late February, I spent three days in Honolulu, Hawaii at the National Science and Statistical Committee meeting discussing ways of incorporating information about climate and ecosystem change into the processes we use to manage the nation’s fisheries. I attended the meeting with Farron Wallace, Chair of the…
If you’re the parent of a student in grade school or middle school, you’ve probably come across one or more of the 40 odd books featured in the Scientists in the Field series originated by Sy Montgomery, author of the best-selling Good, Good Pig (2006, Random House). The series is devoted to a broad spectrum…
