HAMES CENTER LAKE ST SITKA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER P PETERSON AVE 1.3 MILES NORTHWEST YAW BUILDING ALLEN HALL JEFF DAVIS ST LINCOLN ST LAKE ST P COLLEGE DR WESTMARK LINCOLN ST ExExplploorree LILIFEFE ONON TTHHEE .5 MILE WEST SITKA WHALEFEST BOUNBOUNDADARYRY SSSC 2015 MAP SITKA WHALEFEST NOV 5-8 2015 WhaleFest 2015 SITKA WHALEFEST THURSDAY, NOV 5 WHALEFEST MARKET 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 Ocean & 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 Estuary 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 Whale 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 Benthos 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 whales, 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 Mammals 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 species that contribute DAY 1 past food webs and productivity in our oceans. a discovery to its native inhabitants, the significantly to the Arctic marine food web. 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 food chain 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 fish 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 phytoplankton 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 plankton 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 ‘marine snow’ 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 bones, 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 Estuaries 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.