Science Outreach

Are you interested in our scientists visiting your classroom or organization in interior Alaska to talk about fish or fishing? Please contact us at kfraley@wcs.org! Check out some of our recent outreach activities below

School Outreach

2022 Presentation for University of Alaska Fairbanks “Fresh Eyes on Ice Program” on Winter Fish Ecology

2022 Ice fishing/underwater camera school outreach day at Chena Lakes for Anne Wien School

2022 Fish ID and fly casting outreach day at Barnette Magnet School in Fairbanks

2021 Fish ID and fly casting outreach day at Ballaine Lake for FNSB Migrant Education Program Summer Academy

Summer 2021 Hosted an American Fisheries Society Hutton Scholar/Intern

NPS and USFWS Online Articles:

-Revisiting Cape Thompson’s Lagoons
–Coastal Lagoons Resource Brief for the Arctic Network
–Energy Condition of Subsistence-harvested Fishes in Arctic Coastal Lagoons
–Factors that Affect Habitat and Trophic Ecology of Fishes in Cape Krusenstern National Monument Coastal Lagoons
–Zooplankton in Cape Krusenstern National Monument Lagoons
–Understanding the Ecology of Arctic Coastal Lagoons through Fisheries Research and Monitoring
–Bering Land Bridge 2012-2013 Field Project Summary

Popular Publications

“Tarpon of the Tundra” in Autumn 2021 issue of Fly Fish Journal: Adventure story recounting float fishing the Kobuk River, with fish science information and notes about the Ambler Road conservation threat

“Gems Among the Aufeis” in Autumn 2022 issue of Backcountry Journal: Adventure story recounting a packraft trip on Alaska’s North Slope, with fish science information and notes about threats to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

“Innoko Waterwolves” in Autumn 2022 issue of The Drake: Science/adventure story focusing on a fieldwork trip to the Innoko River for northern pike scientific sampling

“Trekking for Pumpkin Char Above the Arctic Circle” April 2023 online article for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership: Dalton Highway Arctic char hike-out fishing story with connections to Central Yukon EIS conservation concerns

“Yukon River salmon declines: What’s under the surface” July 2025 online article for Trout Unlimited describing the Yukon River drainage salmon conservation crisis

“Engaging Arctic Indigenous Communities Meaningfully in Decision-making Affecting their Food Security” in 2021 North Pacific Arctic Conference Voices of the Future Series

Posters and Brochures