Tom Moran

The title screen of “Cumikluten (Pay Attention),” in which retired Chevak schoolteacher James Ayuluk addresses a school group. Photo by Tom Moran/Alaska Sea Grant. A new short film details ways that residents in Western Alaska are responding constructivel... See more

Hello from our new science communicator By Tom Moran A bold new era has begun at Alaska Sea Grant. Okay, that’s incredibly hyperbolic, but there has been a noteworthy change here in the Fairbanks office, as I’ve started work as our new science communicato... See more

If you have any doubt that Democrats are fired up these days, look to the frenzied fight to fill the House seat that Mikie Sherrill vacated a few weeks ago, after her landslide win in the race for governor of New Jersey. A gaudy total of 13 Democrats are ... See more

The news that President Donald Trump is moving to gut protections for wetlands, and that the Hudson River might be among his victims, sent me back through a time machine to the days when I was a kid sloshing around in its murky waters nearly every day dur... See more

In blue states and red, kids are taught in grade school that the men who founded America were geniuses, as if touched by the divine with the wisdom to build the world’s first lasting democracy. It’s time to revisit that. They made their share of mistakes.... See more