The fifth issue is now complete & sent to subscribers.
The focus topic is birds

The calendar was updated July 18, 1999.

more information will be posted soon

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Last updated: 7.18.99

Cook Inlet and the Kenai Peninsula, on the south-central coast of Alaska, are dynamic and diverse environments that have attracted scientific research for decades. Scientists have learned much about the natural resources so vital to area residents, but much of their work takes place out of the public eye. Publications tend to focus on specialized disciplines across wide geographic areas, rather than interdisciplinary reports about specific locations.

By translating information into a popular form and concentrating on the specific geographic area, the newsletter helps students, educators, policy makers, resource users, concerned citizens and scientists curious about other fields of expertise find out what is happening here and now on the Kenai Peninsula.

This quarterly publication includes news about discoveries and projects, bibliographies and a calendar of upcoming conferences, meetings and events.

Each issue has a focus topic and is designed to be a useful resource for future reference. The first issue, released in April 1998 and posted here under the issues link, focused on the Cook Inlet watershed and current projects on water quality, marine and freshwater systems. Topics for subsequent issues are also under the issues link.

We hope to expand our features and services over time.

The newsletter is a private, independent publication. It strives for accurate, complete and unbiased reporting that any literate reader can understand. It welcomes corrections, suggestions, comments, and information for future issues.

The first issue of the newsletter is presented free, thanks to the generous support of Kachemak Bay Discovery and the Homer Society of Natural History/Pratt Museum, funded by grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Other issues are available only by subscription or from the publisher.

This is a shoestring venture. If you support the local science newsletter concept, help us grow. Please subscribe and urge your colleagues to do so. The newsletter will only continue if interest is sufficient.

For more information, e-mail mutski@alaska.net, phone (907)262-3126, or mail requests to: Cook Inlet & Kenai Peninsula Science Newsletter; P.O. Box 834; Kasilof, AK 99610.