A group of scientists who study the Pribilof Islands are on their way to Seattle for a North Pacific Marine science conference. That isn’t big news- since the “Galapagos of the north” is a hub for all kinds of interesting research. But these scientists are special, because they live on the islands… and most of them haven’t yet graduated from high school.
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