The Humpback Whale Research Program offers courses each semester.
Enrollment is limited and by the permission of instructor only.
This class will allow Sitka students to actively participate in scientific research through participation in data analysis and management, along with field work in Sitka Sound. The student interns will learn scientific methods through participating in matching photographs of individual whales to various data sets, participating in shore-based surveys at Whale Park, entering the data into a database management program and participating in field work. Scientists will lecture about various marine mammals in Alaska. Lectures topics may cover bowhead, humpback and killer whales, along with sea otters, harbor seals, Yankee whaling in the North Pacific and marine mammal physiology. The first lecture will be an introduction to the lecture topics and discussion of requirements for the course.