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Help Bring us Home!

After years of fundraising, we're so close to making our final payment of $66,000 on the AWF field station. Help us with the final push, and invest in permanent research infrastructure in the heart of Southeast Alaska's inside passage. 

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What's our field station all about?

In 2016 AWF made the first payment on a multi-use field station committed to conservation and environmental stewardship in Southeast Alaska.  The Center for Coastal Conservation (CCC) is AWF's permanent base for scientific study and stewardship. Our field station provides the infrastructure required to research important regional conservation issues, and allows AWF to invest in the next generation of researchers by providing unparalleled field research opportunities to young scientists.

A 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving Alaska’s marine mammals and their habitat through direct conservation actions, inspired research and engaging education programs.

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS ARE INTEGRAL TO ALASKA WHALE FOUNDATIONS RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.  CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT.

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS ARE INTEGRAL TO ALASKA WHALE FOUNDATIONS RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.  CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT.

NET ENTANGLEMENT IS A LEADING CAUSE OF MORTALITY AMONG ALASKAN HUMPBACK WHALES.  CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE.

NET ENTANGLEMENT IS A LEADING CAUSE OF MORTALITY AMONG ALASKAN HUMPBACK WHALES.  CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE.

UPDATES FROM THE FIELD...

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Night on the Net Pens - by Madison Kosma

Lifting my head up out of my tent, I look out and see it: the mist from its breathe floats in the air as the slick black body sinks beneath the net pens. Beneath me.

A Picturesque Place, or a Reality Check? - Danielle Derrick

As a university student, it is easy to get caught up in the life of writing papers, studying for exams, preparing for grad school and juggling all the other little things that consistently appear from thin air...

East Coast, West Coast: from Massachusetts to the Last Frontier - by Christine Walder

The whales disappeared into the fog and for a moment we were alone on the boat, a small island in a sea of fog and water.

Banding birds with Allison Nelson in Warm Springs Bay
Our local salmon hatchery thief Hobo is back!
Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said last year at this time! Humpbacks are discovering there are easy meals to be had when the juvenile salmon are released into the wild. Great for recovering whale populations that are finding it increasingly hard to get enough to eat, but a hard pill to swallow for the people that invest a lot of time, energy and money into these facilities to help support regional fisheries at a time when some wild stocks are suffering.
All’s quiet at the nearby salmon hatchery on Baranof Island. Hatcheries like this one support approximately one third of all the salmon caught by commercial fisheries in Southeast Alaska.
Skunk cabbage flowers are emerging everywhere on our island! The roots of these early bloomers are important food for our resident brown bears who, like us, are awaking from their winter slumber.
We arrived back in Warm Springs Bay for the field season to find ice still on the lake above our research center. Spring may have arrived, but winter hasn’t fully let go!