Thomas Norris, ANTHC Apprentice Electrician, recently passed the State of Alaska Certificate of Fitness Exam for Electrical Journeyman, making him the first graduate of the ANTHC Environmental Health and Engineering Apprenticeship Program. This program was developed in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship and Alaska Vocational Technical Related Studies Program. The four-year program requires 8,000 hours of on-the-job learning, in addition to many required hours of instruction. During his time as an apprentice, Norris worked on ...

On April 13, ANTHC Environmental Health and Engineering staff traveled to Seattle, Washington to attend the 4th Annual Arctic Encounter Symposium, the largest annual Arctic policy event in the United States. The two-day symposium, themed Shifting North: A New Era in the Arctic, brought together a number of individuals and nonprofit organizations from Iceland, Greenland, Canada, Russia, Norway, and the United States to discuss developing scientific and geo-political issues concerning the future of the Arctic. Alaska Senators Dan Sullivan and ...