Dean's Message
S. Bradley Moran, Dean
The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
is a world-class marine research and teaching organization focusing on marine and
freshwater fisheries, oceanography, marine biology, seafood technology and community
outreach.
As Alaska’s university marine science institution, we are uniquely positioned to help
the citizens of Alaska understand our varied and changing marine and freshwater ecosystems
and coastal resources on which so many depend.
We seek and share knowledge of local and global aquatic systems, through pioneering
scientific research and discovery and increasingly through the exchange and preservation
of existing knowledge.
We search for knowledge throughout the world’s oceans, but focus in and around Alaska,
on our oceans, bays and estuaries, and on our freshwater systems, from the Gulf of
Alaska to the Arctic Ocean. Our pursuit of knowledge includes the study of our coastal
communities, our living and non-living resources and the ecosystems within which they
occur.
Alaska’s people are uniquely dependent on our coasts and rivers. At the UAF College
of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, we are charged with creating and exchanging knowledge
that serves Alaskans’ needs as they face an increasingly uncertain and changeable
future.