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AWA's Kenai Peninsula Coordinator wins NOAA Partners in the Spotlight award!

AWA's Kenai Peninsula Coordinator wins NOAA Partners in the Spotlight award!

Our Kenai Peninsula Coordinator, Teresa Becher, was just awarded a 2023 'Partners in the Spotlight Award' from NOAA fisheries! These national awards recognize partners who have expanded and enhanced recovery of the country's most imperiled marine species.

In the News: Volunteers make over 200 beluga observations in rivers this spring

In the News: Volunteers make over 200 beluga observations in rivers this spring

Alaska Wildlife Alliance’s Kenai coordinator, Teresa Becher, made another great appearance in the news for monitoring of critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales as part of the Alaska Beluga Monitoring Partnership! Read on to learn more about this past spring’s observations of belugas and how you can help these whales this fall.

Alaska's Wildlife-Inspired Place Names, Episode 3

Alaska's Wildlife-Inspired Place Names, Episode 3

On Hannah’s third trip, she will be embracing the cold and venturing north along with some of Alaska’s most iconic wildlife. While exploring the Arctic and Northern slope of Alaska, we will be going through several old mining communities and smaller villages that rely heavily on animals as subsistence resources.

In the News: Beluga whale monitoring efforts looking for winter sightings in Kenai, Kasilof rivers and in lower Cook Inlet

In the News: Beluga whale monitoring efforts looking for winter sightings in Kenai, Kasilof rivers and in lower Cook Inlet

An article about our citizen science partnership to monitor critically endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales. By Teresa Becher for the Homer News.

VIDEO: Soundscapes and Sounds in Nature workshop

VIDEO: Soundscapes and Sounds in Nature workshop

The world of sounds and soundscapes are explored in this free virtual workshop. Presenters cover the breadth of sounds in nature as a discipline, from the appreciation and ecological significance of sounds, to how they are measured and managed, and finally to how human-generated noise can disturb Alaskan wildlife.

VIDEO: Harbor Porpoise Wildlife Wednesday

VIDEO: Harbor Porpoise Wildlife Wednesday

Free virtual presentation as we host Dr. Deborah Boege Tobin, UAA-KPC Professor of Biology and Coordinator for the Kachemak Bay Campus’ Semester by the Bay program in Homer, for her presentation "Is it a Whale? Is it a Seal? No! It's a Harbor Porpoise!" Dr. Tobin will teach us about harbor porpoises, focusing on those in Cook Inlet.

VIDEO: Wildlife Wednesday- Hormones and Whales. What tiny molecules can tell us about giants of the sea

VIDEO: Wildlife Wednesday- Hormones and Whales. What tiny molecules can tell us about giants of the sea

Learn how hormones, tiny molecules produced by the body, are the secret to understanding how whales are coping with a changing environment.