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6:30-7 Student Marine Art Reception Sitka WhaleFest FILMFEST &CAFE NOVEMBER 6-8 7:30-8:30 WhaleFest FilmFest FRI & SAT 11-5PM• SUN 11-4PM brings the science YAW BUILDING SJC CAMPUS FREE FREE FREE FRIDAY, NOV 6 to you, informing Our third annual filmfest! Marine-themed market with local Student art show Scientists share their marine Allen Hall, Sheldon Jackson artists and food Yaw Building, SJC knowledge 11-5 The Market & Café, Silent Auction, Student Art on important Campus Yaw Building, SJC Friday Nov 6 & Saturday Nov 7 Allen Hall, Sheldon Jackson Thursday Nov 5 | 7:30-8:30pm Friday Nov 6 & Saturday Nov 7 11:00-5:00pm Campus 1-3:45 Symposium: Shallow Apex: Where & Land Meet 11:00-5:00pm Sunday Nov 8 | 11:00-4:00pm Friday Nov 6-Sunday Nov 8 topics concerning Sunday Nov 8 | 11:00-4:00pm 1:00-3:45pm 1-1:45 What do Algae, Poison, and CSI Have in Common? 2-2:45 Live Long and Prosper: Challenges of Living our marine 3-3:45 Unraveling the Past with Mud, Garbage & Chemistry environment. 5 Pre-registration for 5K/10K Run/Walk The 19th Annual Sitka WhaleFest 5:30-7 Sitka Sound Science Center Reception is a program of the Sitka Sound 7:30 Maritime Grind Science Center. The event hosts a SATURDAY, NOV 7 unique science symposium blending local knowledge and scientific 9 a Registration for 5K/10K Run/Walk inquiry concerning the rich marine

10 a Start of 5K/10K Run/Walk environment of the North Pacific. $5 9-11:30 a Marine Wildlife Cruise The festival is a true celebration FREE $25 $55 9-12 Family Art Workshop of our marine wildlife with a vast Science Center Reception Marine-themed talent show 5K & 10K Run/Walk Join scientists for an educational Sitka Sound Science Center Sitka Performing Arts Center Park marine cruise 11-5 The Market & Café, Silent Auction, Student Art array of community and cultural Friday Nov 6 | 5:30-7:00pm Friday Nov 6 | 7:30pm Saturday Nov 7 Crescent Harbor 12:30 Market book signing with Helen Rozwadowski activities. Join the symposium 9:00 am registration Saturday Nov 7 & Sunday 10:00 am race Nov 8 1-3:45 Symposium: Deep Edge: Value of the scientists for our famous November 9:00 am-11:30am 1-1:45 Whale Falls: Dinner in the Deep marine wildlife cruises on Saturday 2-2:45 Navigating the Unknown and Sunday mornings where you’ll 3-3:45 Living Lights of the Sea have the chance to see humpback 6-6:45 Marine Mingle , Steller sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters. Each day, on Sheldon 7 Feeding Grounds Banquet with Speaker Richard Glenn Jackson Campus, you will find a SUNDAY, NOV 8 festive atmosphere with music, local foods and student artwork. Browse 9-11:30 a Marine Wildlife Cruise the marine-themed market for gifts 11 – 4 The Market & Café, Silent Auction, Student Art created by Alaska’s talented artistic 1-3:45 Symposium: Frozen Border: Complexities of Ice community. There is something for $5 1-1:45 Unexpected Life Under the Ice FREE $15 $45 everyone! Family art workshop Enjoy drinks and appetizers Drinks, food, music and Arctic Don Sineti family concert 2-2:45 Tidewater Glaciers: The Ocean’s Mixer Sitka Sound Science Center while chatting with WhaleFest Science Talk. Allen Hall Sheldon Jackson 3-3:45 Marine on the Edge Saturday Nov 7 | 9:00- Scientists and friends Allen Hall, Sheldon Jackson Campus 12:00pm Allen Hall, Sheldon Jackson Campus Sunday Nov 8 | 4:30-5:30pm 4:30-5:30 Don Sineti Family Concert Campus Saturday Nov 7 | 7:00pm Saturday Nov 7 6:00-6:45 pm

2 3 from lake and ocean cores to learn more about was “made” by Europeans but was hardly diverse assemblage of that contribute DAY 1 past food webs and in our . a discovery to its native inhabitants, the significantly to the Arctic marine . We will mine the past to better understand discovery of the sea was at least as cultural My talk will focus the physical characteristics SHALLOW APEX: WHERE what the future might bring. Modern as it was geographic. Prompted in part by of sea ice as a habitat and how food produced OCEAN & LAND MEET ecological studies only capture a small portion economic uses of the sea, this discovery within the ice is transferred up the of the large climatic changes the world– and was tied to the rise of modern, professional to the iconic animals we typically associate What do Algae, Poison, and CSI Have in specifically the north– is now experiencing. science, for which the ocean became a central with the ice covered Arctic. Science Common? The past 4500 years saw greater fluctuations arena. The prospect of a trans-Atlantic Chris Whitehead in climate than the last 50 or so years. A better submarine telegraph cable sparked emerging Tidewater Glaciers: The Ocean’s Mixer Symposium “When the tide is out…the table is set.” understanding of how important resources scientific and industrial interests in the deep Chris Larsen LIFE ON THE BOUNDARY These words were spoken by Native elders such as and marine mammals responded sea to transform the depths into a place with Glaciers are agents of change. Advancing, and shared through memories and story. But to past changes could help communities plan newfound importance to people. But the retreating, flowing, grinding and eroding; Join us as we explore life and connections along the ocean edges. Each day now, with the affects of climate change, is it for a sustainable future. real power of this discovery derived from they are geology acting upon human will cover a unique boundary of the ocean: from the shallow intertidal to safe to dig a bucket of bi-valve deliciousness popular culture – the mass numbers of people timescales. Through processes both steady the deep ocean and along the edges of ice and glaciers. Speakers will take and take it home to share on your table? who collected shells, made beach vacations and episodic, they have profoundly altered you on a journey from the history of deep sea exploration, to navigating With changing water chemistry and ocean DAY 2 popular, followed newspaper accounts of the Alaskan landscape and coast. These the changing shorelines, and finally plunging under the ice to reveal the temperatures, harmful algal blooms (HABs), cable-laying voyages, read narratives written changes are not only in the distant past but unique life that exists in this remarkable world. are becoming more frequent and harder to DEEP EDGE: VALUE OF by voyagers such as Charles Darwin, and also now, within our lifetimes. Only a few predict. Certain species can devoured the new maritime novels penned generations have passed since the end of produce toxins more potent than VX nerve THE BENTHOS by the likes of Richard Henry Dana and the Little Ice Age, during which time the gas, and since clams and other filter feeding Herman Melville. The discovery of the deep glaciers of Alaska reached their greatest extent shellfish don’t seem to mind this toxic slurry, Whale Falls: Dinner in the Deep ocean unfolded at the end of sounding lines during the entire Holocene. Widespread how do you know if the shellfish are safe Diva Amon dangled over the side of surveying vessels retreat followed the end of the Little Ice Age. to eat? The Southeast Alaska Tribal Toxins The deep sea is one of the most food-limited and equally in the parlors of middle class This included the unparalleled opening of (SEATT) partnership was developed to create ecosystems on the planet. Life tends to families who kept aquariums in their homes. Glacier Bay along with other rapid tidewater an “early warning” system by monitoring for be sustained by dead and other Current efforts to learn about the deep ocean retreats such as occurred in Icy Bay and HAB species weekly throughout Southeast components of ‘’ that drift are equally immersed in our own culture; is ongoing at Columbia Glacier. Besides Alaska. In time, the SEATT program can be thousands of meters down from the ocean for example, today’s scientists ask questions simple geography, habitat and near shore used to manage HAB events and potentially surface. Occasionally, the carcass of a dead reflecting concern about changing global environments have been altered on a large decrease the human health risks associated whale will sink down into the depths climate. Studying the history of ocean science scale, displacing and shuffling populations as with biotoxins. prompting a feeding bonanza! Animals helps us understand not only the past but our they adapt to the changes. Within our own come from near and far to feast on the relationship with the ocean today. generation, additional changes are mounting Live Long and Prosper: Challenges of carcass, resulting in the rapid consumption as glaciers respond to new forcings. Rather Estuary Living of the tissues. Their large oily , may Living Lights of the Sea than exhibiting a diminishing response to the Jim Harvey remain on the seabed for years to decades, Steven Haddock end of the Little Ice Age, we find that glacier can be productive but challenging providing food and shelter for a variety of Living in the ocean just a few miles offshore melt is accelerating, a signal that can only be places to live. They are productive because organisms. Whale falls are thought to occur are creatures more alien than those in any driven by recent climate change. they are usually shallower, warmer, and have in all of the world’s oceans, but especially science fiction movie. Many of these animals fewer predators than the oceans, and there in regions where whales congregate such as — known as gelatinous plankton — are Marine Mammals on the Edge are additional nutrients from river runoff and the northeast Pacific Ocean. Despite over so fragile that they haven’t been observed Michael Castellini from the sea. Estuaries can be challenging 30 years of research on these interesting until recently, when scientists have begun The “edge of the sea-ice” is an amazing because they have a mixture of seawater and deep-sea habitats, we still have only a basic to explore, film, and collect them using location where air, ice and ocean meet. It is freshwater, the water can be turbid, and understanding of their ecology, and for some submersibles. Using deep-diving vehicles and here where marine mammals surface, haul they are heavily influenced by tides so water ocean basins, we know nothing at all. My talk genome-scale sequencing, we can address out onto the ice, dive under “the edge”, or levels change daily. The that will focus on the whalefall decomposition centuries-old questions of how their diversity cruise along looking for food. But, what is the use estuaries, such as seals, shorebirds, and process, the weird and wonderful animals has arisen and how they have adapted to life “ice edge” really like? Is it a hard line, just an , have many to allow them that inhabit whale falls, and various whalefall in the vast deep sea. These beautiful animals area, or a region? In the first part of this talk to prosper in these special places. I will talk studies from around the world. are often cast in a negative light, but they are I will explore the wonders of the “ice edge” about these animals that feed, reproduce, and important members of marine ecosystems. and what it is like to be out there. Next, we sleep in estuaries and how they prosper in this Navigating the Unknown This talk will present some of the lesser- will look at why marine mammals find this unique place where ocean and land meet. Helen Rozwadowski known inhabitants of marine environments, such an attractive area to live. Finally, we People did not always study the deep ocean, and show how they fit into the larger ocean will look at why humans are fascinated with Unraveling the Past with Mud, Garbage or even think about it much. Navigators ecosystem, from single-celled algae to whales. “boundaries” of all kinds and reconsider our & Chemistry traditionally used 200-fathom sounding Sitka WhaleFest theme of Marine Boundaries Nicole Misarti lines (a fathom is six feet) and were more after a weekend of talks, discussions and Mud. Ancient garbage. Chemistry. In my concerned with ruling out shallowness than events. research, these things go hand in hand. I measuring deep water. When and why did DAY 3 use chemistry of bones and soils to help us people begin to ask questions about the FROZEN BORDER: understand changes in who eats who and ocean’s depths and investigate them? Who where (food webs) and abundance of marine began to ask how deep the sea really was, COMPLEXITIES OF ICE life (productivity) over long periods of time and what existed there? The answers to these such as thousands of years. This presentation questions form a story about the mid 19th Unexpected Life Under the Ice will explore using ancient garbage dumps in century discovery of the deep ocean. Like Mette Kaufman archaeological sites (called middens) and mud the discovery of the New World, which Sea ice is a unique habitat that supports a

4 5 Speakers DIVA AMON Dr. Diva Amon is a deep-sea ecologist with a special such as whale falls, hydrothermal interest in chemosynthetic habitats and anthropogenic vents, wood falls, -eating impacts in the deep sea. In 2013, she completed her worms and wood-eating clams. PhD jointly at the University of Southampton and Diva is particularly interested in the Natural History Museum in London, UK. Since the biogeography of wood falls CHRIS WHITEHEAD then, she has been a postdoctoral fellow in Professor and whale falls in our world’s Craig Smith’s lab, the ‘Father of Whale Falls’, in the oceans. Her fieldwork has led her Chris Whitehead is the Environmental Program developing recirculating Department of Oceanography at the University of to wrangle with smelly whale bones Manager for the Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Resource aquaculture systems to rear Hawai’i at Manoa. Currently, Dr. Amon is focused in Antarctica, the Bahamas, the Protection Department. Chris manages all shrimp. In 2005, Chris moved on understanding what megafauna inhabit the largely Cayman Trench, off the coast of environmental projects including a harmful to Washington and worked as unknown deep sea of Clarion-Clipperton Zone in South Africa, Hawaii and off Washington and Oregon. monitoring program, designing and implementing a a shellfish biologist managing the Pacific Ocean, in advance of the mining of this She considers herself to be a ‘tropical species’ having regulatory biotoxin lab, subsistence foods monitoring commercial crab and geoduck region for polymetallic nodules. In order to responsibly been born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago in the for heavy metals and mercury, and other climate change fisheries as well as developing manage and protect this abyssal ecosystem, one must Caribbean but is looking forward to feeling the real related work. He received his degree from the University oyster, clam, and geoduck aquaculture farms for the first understand what is there. Her PhD research cold of Alaska during her first visit. of Hawaii in 2001 and worked as a researcher Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and the Skokomish Tribe. focused on the ecology of chemosynthetic environments

JIM HARVEY HELEN ROZWADOWSKI

Jim Harvey is Director of Moss Landing Marine Sanctuary, Elkhorn Slough Dr. Helen Rozwadowski is dedicated to rescuing Her book, Fathoming the Ocean: Laboratories (MLML) and has served as Chair of the National Estuarine Research the ocean from being left out of history. Trained as The Discovery and Exploration Department for four years, and Professor of Marine Reserve (Chair), The Marine a historian of science, she earned a Ph.D. from the of the Deep Sea (2005), tells the Ecology for 22 years. His research interests Center, the National University of Pennsylvania. Studies of environmental story of the simultaneous cultural include the ecology of marine turtles, , and Marine Fisheries (NOAA), and history and maritime history led her to broaden her and scientific discovery of the deep mammals; interactions between marine mammals and serves on the Board for the research questions from an initial investigation of the ocean in the mid 19th century, fisheries; relationship between oceanographic conditions Society for Marine Mammalogy, origins of oceanography in the 19th century. Now she is a story involving yachting, and populations; and assessing COAST, CA Sea Grant, and working to create a field of ocean history that chronicles hydrographic charting, the trans- health and condition of marine vertebrate populations the San Jose State University the human relationship with the entire ocean, not Atlantic telegraph cable, amateur (especially contaminants and disease). He has served Research Foundation. just its surface. An Associate Professor of History and naturalists and maritime novelists. Awarded the History as an advisor for the Monterey Bay National Marine Maritime Studies at the University of Connecticut, she of Science Society’s Davis Prize for best book directed teaches mainly at the University’s marine and maritime to a wide public audience, it was reviewed in science campus, Avery Point. She has written and edited journals including Science and Nature in addition to books on the history of , the history of history journals. She is currently writing a cultural technology used by ocean scientists, and the history history of the ocean from prehistory to the present, of polar oceanography – the latter emerging from a and is also working on a project studying undersea conference held at the Barrow Arctic Science Center. exploration in the 1950s and 1960s. NICOLE MISARTI

Nicole Misarti has a PhD. in Marine Science and ecosystems. Nicole originally Archaeology from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks grew up in Italy and has been (UAF) and is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the US since she started in the Water and Environmental Research department. college at the age of 17. She has STEVEN HADDOCK She is involved in coastal and marine research in lived in Vermont, Connecticut, southern Alaska and southern most Patagonia (Chile Wisconsin, Missouri, California, Steve Haddock studies marine diversity, molecular and to understand the proteins and Argentina). The questions she is interested in Idaho, and Oregon. Since 2002, biology, and at the Monterey Bay that they use to make light. He answering include: how have the marine/coastal she has lived in Alaska, both Aquarium Research Institute and UC Santa Cruz. also runs the Bioluminescence ecosystems changed, how did the change affect a out in the Aleutians and in Fairbanks. He specializes in fragile gelatinous drifters that are Web Page, the citizen-science particular species (including humans and where and Outside of work Nicole enjoys skiing, hiking and abundant in the deep-sea and open ocean. In addition project jellywatch.org, and teaches how they lived), how did the change affect resources camping and kayaking in the great outdoors of Alaska. to conducting research expeditions, he uses genetic computing to scientists. species depend on and how did humans affect marine methods to reveal the relationships between organisms

6 7 Speakers Scientists in Schools

METTE KAUFMAN The Scientist in the Schools Program raises scientific 1600 students (kindergarten to graduate) during over literacy with the ultimate goal of creating a student 1600 total hours of instruction. The SIS program Mette Kaufman is a Research Technician with the group continues to look into the population with an appreciation for marine ecology is an innovative and popular model that is being University of Alaska, Fairbanks and her research is ecology, productivity and food webs by introducing basic scientific concepts and exciting replicated throughout the region due in part to primarily on sea ice ecology with a focus on sea ice associated with sea ice in various students about marine science through an experiential USDA Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary related food webs. Her masters’ work investigated the areas off the coast of Alaska as well as activity. SIS brings five renowned marine scientists Education, Agriculture in the degree to which under ice fauna utilize sea ice algae and in offshore Arctic waters. In Mette’s to help secondary school students with creative K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program (SPECA) meiofauna as a food source using stable isotopes work with the Geophysical Institute thinking and problem solving techniques important and through SSSC’s National Science Foundation of carbon and nitrogen as tracers. Currently, Mette cold lab she is learning to collect and to scientific understanding. In 2012, Scientists in the funded Scientists in Residency Fellowship program. works with two sea ice research groups. Her research process sea ice for examination of its Schools provided education programming to over with the School of Fisheries and Ocean Science sea ice physical properties.

CHRIS LARSEN MARNIE CHAPMAN Marnie Chapman is dedicated to increasing Her Scientists in the Chris Larsen has a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the ever flown. Additionally, he uses an understanding of marine invasive species. She has Schools presentation University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and a Masters array of geodesy, remote sensing, collaborated on invasive tunicate studies with NOAA, fostered this goal in Geophysics from the University of California, Santa photogrammetry, and seismology UCSF and the Smithsonian Environmental Research by giving Sitka 6th Cruz. He is a Research Professor for the Geophysical in field-based research to study Center. Whiting Harbor, near Sitka, hosts the only graders practice in Institute at UAF and oversees the glacier altimetry Alaskan glaciers. Chris grew up known Alaska population of Didemnum vexillum (D. identifying native program. Since 2009 he directed Operation Ice Bridge in San Diego and now lives in vex), an invader that now carpets extensive areas of the and invasive marine Alaska. Operation Ice Bridge is a NASA airborne Fairbanks where he enjoys aviation, North Atlantic sea floor. Studies on invasive tunicates species. Students mission focused on glaciers and icesheets worldwide, ski mountaineering, photography in Alaska may help us control or eradicate it. Marnie used microscopes to and is the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice and mountain biking. believes Sitka has a unique stewardship role and that analyze organisms all can help by knowing how to recognize and report growing on settlement plates, a monitoring technique D. vex, should it ever turn up outside Whiting Harbor. used for long term studies of marine invasive species.

MICHAEL CASTELLINI

Dr. Michael Castellini earned his PhD from Scripps for deep and long duration diving, ELLEN CHENOWETH Institution of Oceanography in 1981 and has been a extended fasting, exercise physiology, faculty member at the University of Alaska Fairbanks hydrodynamics and even sleeping Ellen Chenoweth is a Science Center associate and content, a process known as since 1989. He was the founding Science Director for patterns. In Alaska, his work has current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alaska calorimetry. The students then the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, the Director of extended into issues of population Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. compared diving data from the University of Alaska Institute of Marine Science, health, contaminant chemistry and Her dissertation research focuses on humpback tagged whales to compare Associate Dean and then Dean for the School of digestive physiology. He has written whale foraging activity throughout Southeast Alaska, energy budgets of whales feeding Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS) since 2010. over 100 scientific works and is including salmon hatchery release sites. She shared on different types of prey. In Starting in 2015, Dr. Castellini will leave as SFOS involved in local, state and National her research interest in the movement of energy addition to the SIS program, Dean and work in scientific outreach for the University panels and committees dealing with through the with students at Mt. Ellen helped to coordinate the and be the Associate Dean for the UAF Graduate policy issues related to marine mammals, ecosystem Edgecumbe High school as part of the Scientists WhaleFest FilmFest. When not Program. Dr. Castellini’s research focuses on how management and agency oversights. Castellini works in the Schools program. Students burned different lighting whale food on fire, Ellen enjoys long kayak marine mammals have adapted to life in the sea. Ever with Jan Straley, WhaleFest Science Director, to develop whale and human foods to measure their energetic trips, and is always down for a flash mob. since his graduate work in San Diego, he has studied the program for the science symposium each year, select marine mammals around the world examining their the theme for WhaleFest and invite the speakers. biochemical, physiological and behavioral adaptations

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TODD O’HARA

Todd O’Hara, in addition to assisting on this year’s [Villanova University (1979- SIS necropsy event, held a career talk at UAS for 1985)]. His major interests are high school and college students to gain a better environmental/wildlife toxicology, understanding of science and especially veterinary assessments of subsistence foods, career pathways. Dr. O’Hara is a Professor of and wildlife conservation and Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology at the medicine in a One Health Context. University of Alaska Fairbanks and was a Research Current research activities include Sitkans, quench your curiosity with SSSC Discovery Biologist for the Department of Wildlife Management, assessments of fish, , Days. Every other Saturday from 10-Noon we’ll explore North Slope Borough in Barrow, Alaska. Dr. O’Hara cetaceans, and other mammals a new science theme. Check out the Hot News section came to Alaska for the “opportunity of a lifetime” to for nutritional value and exposure on our homepage or look us up on Facebook to find out work and live “in the field” with amazing people and to contaminants for human consumers and health what the next theme will be. Discovery Days are SSSC wildlife. Dr. O’Hara’s academic training includes a assessments of free ranging wildlife. He is currently DISCOVERY Member events. If you don’t have a membership, consider D.V.M. [University of Wisconsin - Madison, School playing an administrative role in the development of a purchasing one when you stop by for the next Discovery of Veterinary Medicine (1988 - 1992)], a Ph.D. DVM training program in collaboration with Colorado Days. - See more at: in Pharmacology/ Toxicology [Medical College of State University (Coordinator of Student Services). www.sitkascience.org/education/school-programs Virginia (1985-1988)], and a B.S. and M.S. in Biology days

Banquet Speaker SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER

RICHARD GLENN FIELD THE CHANGING ARCTIC OCEAN: A PERSPECTIVE FROM BARROW, ALASKA STATION Over the past 30 or so years there has been a profound the bowhead whale, provide the change in the Arctic Ocean, most of it related to sea ice backdrop for Barrow residents to cover. There has been a dramatic reduction in multi- become sea ice connoisseurs. They appreciate “good year sea ice, but there are other changes as well. Freeze- ice”, have to deal with “junk ice”, and still relish the up happens later and breakup happens earlier, and the opportunity to harvest drinking water from “old ice”. “shoulder seasons” of fall and spring are changing in Richard will offer some anecdotes of his experiences in duration and character. Despite all of the changes, the and around Barrow, Alaska. ocean still freezes every year, allowing opportunities for local folks to interact with the sea ice environment. Subsistence hunting of marine mammals, including

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Our annual market showcases the most talented artists from around Alaska as well as local non-profits that support the marine environment around Sitka. Our silent auction table is located in the Rousseau Room at the market. We received donations from many generous local artists, vendors, and Sitka businesses. All proceeds from the auction go towards Sitka WhaleFest.

COMPANY PRODUCTS

Sitka Maritime Heritage Society...... Information about Japonski Island Boathouse renovation The OuterCoast...... Art Cards, Calendars and more Old Harbor Books...... Books, bookmarks, calendars, kids’ items JAN STRALEY MICHAEL LISA BUSCH Laura Kaltenstein...... Beadwork, prints, Christmas ornaments, paintings FOUNDER CASTELLINI SSSC DIRECTOR Sitka Conservation Society...... An array of clothing and merchandise which feature designs by local artists Tidal Trove...... Crafts created from nature SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM DIRECTOR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM DIRECTOR Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Assoc...... Informational/educational materials, t-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats; posters of work, table tri-fold, computer video display, raffle ticket sales Inside Passage Waterkeeper...... Selling “for the love of salmon” shirts and “We Eat Fish!” hats to celebrate Southeast Alaska’s clean water resources Sitka Style...... Fish Print Apparel Art by Tracy Sylvester...... Whale paintings, tee shirts, leggings, etc. NOAA Office of Law Enforcement...... NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement protects marine wildlife and habitat. WinterSong Soap Company ...... Local made alaskan herbal soaps Scientists in SchoolsTeam Great Sitka Arts Council / Friends of Sheldon Jackson GSAC will provide information on upcoming events Shee Atika, Incorporated ...... Balanced Accounting Solutions ...and more

WhaleFest Team JANET CLARK ASHLEY STEVE LEWIS

SIS PROGRAM MANAGER BOLWERK SIS COORDINATOR MADISON KOSMA SIS COORDINATOR Volunteers, you are the driving force behind Sitka WhaleFest.Thank you Sitka Sound Science WHALEFEST DIRECTOR Thank You! Center staff and board for your hard work and dedication to making WhaleFest happen.

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