For years growing up in Juneau, Donovan Bell walked, drove and rode his bike past one of the most dynamic resources in his collegiate career, and he never knew it existed. Read the full article at: UAS yields key data for fishing industry | Juneau Empire – Alaska’s Capital City Online Newspaper
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Alaska Economic Trends – November
November Trends looks at jobs in Alaska’s fishing industry. Seafood harvesting employment grew in 2014 because of stellar groundfish harvests, which more than offset minor job losses in salmon fishing. The issue also profiles a Southwestern community that relies heavily on the fishing industry – King Salmon. At the gateway to Katmai and a few miles upriver from Bristol Bay, King Salmon has a commercial-size airport and is a strategic location for tourism, transportation, and support for Bristol Bay’s enormous sockeye harvests.
Workforce Wednesday: Welding careers in Alaska | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11
Cari-Ann Ketteling with the Alaska Process Industry Careers Consortium (APICC), and Riley Peck, who currently works in the welding industry, joined Daybreak to talk about career opportunities.
“Welders can make more than $100,000 per year, and companies like Tesoro and Vigor Alaska are currently hiring.”
Video Source: Workforce Wednesday: Welding careers in Alaska | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11
UAS Fish Tech Fall 2015 Newsletter
Kodiak College Gets New Trainer for Boat Classes
KODIAK, Alaska — Kodiak College has a new training tool that squishes all of a boat’s operational systems into a 4-by-7-foot cart to teach repair and maintenance classes.
Most of the systems are miniaturized with a small engine, a tiny prop and a 5-gallon bucket of water to represent the ocean in a sea water cooling system.
“You can see all the vessel systems at once and you can also see how they integrate with each other,” said LA Holmes, the college’s maritime workforce development coordinator.
Read the full article at Newsminer.com – The Voice of Interior Alaska.
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