Director Kasper engages with ACEP and ARCTIC partners in Cordova
PWSSC's Katrina Hoffman and ACEP's Jeremy Kasper visit the center’s seawater pump house in Cordova, Alaska.
August 4, 2024
ACEP Director Jeremy Kasper visited Cordova in July to engage with local ACEP and ARCTIC partners.
During his stay, he visited the Prince William Sound Science Center’s new 5-acre waterfront campus with advanced laboratories, a running seawater system and plans for a science residence and dormitory.
The 20,000-square-foot facility makes PWSSC and Alaska more competitive for national-level research funding, supports high-wage jobs, generates new opportunities for STEAM — science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics — education, and advances industries such as mariculture, aquaculture, commercial fishing and seafood processing.
PWSSC is expanding its expertise and focus to include renewable energy research, and boasts a state-of-the-art seawater heat exchange system, joining the Alaska Sealife Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute as the only facilities in Alaska to heat with seawater.
Kasper was joined in Cordova by Tommy Sheridan, who serves as the local site coordinator for ACEP-ARCTIC, while also serving as the lead for the Alaska Blue Economy Center.
The ARCTIC program, short for the Alaska Regional Collaboration for Technology Innovation and Commercialization program, is an Office of Naval Research initiative, designed to promote commerce and partnerships among Alaska and the Arctic and Pacific regions through advancements in energy through resiliency research, technology development, and deployment and education.