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Past Issues
2023

Sixth grade ROV challenge — May 2023
Sixth grade ROV challenge

"Char-coot-erie" board — April 2023
"Char-coot-erie" board

Aurora borealis over Cordova — March 2023
Aurora borealis over Cordova

Kelp art by Cordova's 2rd grade class — February 2023
Kelp art by Cordova's 2rd grade class

Grinning bear on house post — January 2023
Grinning bear on house post

2022

Research Vessel New Wave — December 2022
Research Vessel New Wave

Sandhill Cranes fly over Cordova — September 2022
Sandhill Cranes over Cordova

Salmon Paddle by Mike Webber — August 2022
Salmon Paddle by Mike Webber

PWSSC Building under construction — January 2022
PWSSC Building under construction

2021

Sunset behind PWSSC — November 2021
Sunset behind PWSSC

Male sockeye salmon in spawning phase — September 2021
Male sockeye salmon in spawning phase

PWSSC building progress along Orca Road — August 2021
PWSSC building progress along Orca Road

Lineup of XtraTuf boots — May 2021
Lineup of XtraTuf boots

Herring photo from the field with hands for scale — April 2021
Herring photo from the field with hands for scale

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his namesake — March 2021
Sir Ernest Shackleton and his namesake

Nature Journal by PWSSC AmeriCorps Member, Nicole Webster — January 2021
Nature Journal by PWSSC AmeriCorps Member, Nicole Webster

2020

Sidewalk salmon with Cordova's third grade class — December 2020
Sidewalk salmon with Cordova's third grade class

Pen and ink at Hartney Bay — November 2020
Pen and ink at Hartney Bay

Male and female Semipalmated Plover — October 2020
Male and female Semipalmated Plover

Pink salmon — September 2020
Pink salmon

Stewards using their fish ID skills — July 2020
Stewards using their fish ID skills

Copper River Nouveau crowd — June 2020
Copper River Nouveau crowd

Deployment of the sonar on the Copper River — May 2020
Deployment of the sonar on the Copper River

Copper River Basin Symposium participants — April 2020
Copper River Basin Symposium participants

Students observing salmon eggs — March 2020
Students observing salmon eggs

A Tufted Puffin peers out from its burrow — February 2020
A Tufted Puffin peers out from its burrow

Fourteen sixth graders on a winter night hike — January 2020
Fourteen sixth graders on a winter night hike

2019

Yakutat students testing their ROVs — December 2019
Yakutat students testing their ROVs

6th grade students aboard R/V New Wave — November 2019
6th grade students aboard R/V New Wave

One of 200 radio tagged sockeye salmon — October 2019
One of 200 radio tagged sockeye salmon

Caitlin McKinstry views focus stacked images of plankton — September 2019
Caitlin McKinstry views focus stacked images of plankton

Fish printing at Salmon Jam — July 2019
Fish printing at Salmon Jam

Students try their hand at cleaning up slipped oil — May 2019
Students try their hand at cleaning up slipped oil

Warm water anomalies in mid-October of 2018 — March 2019
Warm water anomalies in mid-October of 2018

Research team bringing in a groundfish pot containing a cod for tagging — February 2019
Research team bringing in a groundfish pot containing a cod for tagging

PWS herring spawn in the spring of 2018 — January 2019
PWS herring spawn in the spring of 2018

2012: Fall; Spring
2011: Fall; Spring
2010: Summer
2009: Fall, Spring
2008: Fall, Spring
2007: Winter