Wildlife Wednesday: Climate Change and Alaska's Oceans

Marine conservation biologist, Rick Steiner, gives a summary of the current science on the impacts of climate change in Alaska’s vast ocean ecosystems, including ocean habitat, fish, seabirds, marine mammals, and coastal communities. He then shares what we can do about it. The presentation uses some of the best professional photography of Alaska’s ocean ecosystems.

Steiner is a marine conservation biologist in Anchorage, AK, and he is formerly a marine conservation professor with the University of Alaska covering the Arctic (in Kotzebue), Prince William Sound and the Northern Gulf of Alaska (in Cordova), and then Anchorage. He fished commercially in Alaska for many years, crewed on NOAA ships, and now consults for the U.N., governments, and NGOs around the world on conservation issues.