Stand in uh with me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Found nation undergone indivisible with Justice Rome.

Okay, sure, you get a roll call for us.

Um yes, Mayor.

Uh, all members of the council are present this evening except for um council member um who is absent and excused.

Are you here?

You're here, yes, sir.

Okay, I thought you weren't going to be here.

I finally did, I was able to finally connect.

Sorry for the delay.

Okay.

I correction, Mr.

Mayor.

All members of the council are present this evening.

Okay, we have one public appearance uh tonight, and that's the uh annual report on T3 Alliance and uh culture.

Good evening, everyone.

I'm Tommy Sheridan.

Um can you all hear me?

Yes.

Great.

I'm gonna go ahead and try to share my screen here.

And we'll do that.

All righty.

I can no longer see you all.

Can someone please confirm that you see uh a blue slide before you?

Yes, we do.

Great.

Thank you very much.

I am calling in from Cordova, and so hopefully the uh the internet works for us tonight.

My kids are all at wrestling practice, and so I won't be fighting them for bandwidth.

So fingers crossed, it should go well.

Um, wish I was there with you all.

So my name's Tommy Sheridan.

I'm the director for the Alaska Blue Economy Center, and to give an annual report on what we've been up to, and then opportunistically during the summers we've been visiting as well.

So this is our end of your report.

I'll be giving a summary of what Alaska Blue Economy Center has been up to, and then Adam Lau is joining me, and he'll be giving a summary on teaching through technology or T3.

So there may be some new faces among us here.

I'll just give a quick introduction to what ABEC is.

Alaska Blue Economy Center was established at University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2019, and really it was established to be a small nimble entity at UAF to connect capacities at the university with coastal industry opportunity and problems.

And a big part of our funding has been in Mareculture, which is the marine aquaculture of shellfish and kelp.

My background is fisheries.

We're getting more involved in fisheries.

We've been very involved in workforce development, which I'll talk about tonight, and we have an interest in getting more involved with visitor industry innovations.

ABEC is now housed at the UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, so that's a change that took place this past year.

So this will be similar to uh previous reports.

Really, we'll be focusing on uh a couple key areas, one being advocacy, fund development, and project development.

Um I'll talk a little bit about the Valdez MariCulture Park, which is essentially a sampling program with Prince Williams Sound College, students, faculty, and staff, and then Adam will present on T3 Alliance program activities.

So this this slide breaks all the rules so far as PowerPoints are concerned, but really what I want to drive home here is that um Abeck and I are very active in public outreach, and so um our interests in in Valdez and Prince William Sound with Miraculture are always part of these presentations, and um these take place from Alaska to Seattle.

I was invited to a um large fisheries conference in San Antonio, Texas in the middle of the year.

But what we're doing here is always trying to present on the work that we're doing in Alaska with um colleagues and peers and potential partners on funding opportunities, and so really outreach for us is a means to try to develop funds to help leverage the investment that the city has made so that we can do more with the work that we're trying to do.

Um I'll share here that uh something I'll try to convey in this presentation with some of the materials that I'll share with Martha and with Nate, and hopefully it will be shared with you all.

We are working more closely with an entity in Fairbanks called the Automated Construction and Advanced Materials Lab or ACAM and a graduate student who graduated from Valdez High School, Jessica McKay.

So Jessica is featured in some of these slides and has been a part of our work this past year.

Here I include a website.

Again, this will be provided via email.

We'll provide a written report for Martha and Nate, along with some hyperlinks for outreach that we did.

In August, I presented at the AFS conference in San Antonio, and organizers there took an interest in the work that we're doing with MARCulture Workforce Development, especially that which is taking place at Prince William Sound College.

But we've also been working with middle school students through Science Olympiad and with high school students through Teaching Through Technology.

And they featured us in a digital series that comes with a website and some videos that you all will have access to outside of this meeting.

Here again, I'll break all the rules.