SeaLife director resigns
THE LOG STAFF
January 24, 2008 at 11:01AM AKST
Matt Allen/The Seward Phoenix Log
The Alaska Sealife Center in Seward, a nonprofit facility featuring exhibits such as the one above and geared toward marine research and education, will soon lose Director Tylan Schrock. He handed in his resignation on Friday, Jan. 18.
Alaska SeaLife Center Executive Director Tylan Schrock is stepping down from his position after seven years.
Schrock announced his resignation at the board meeting held on Friday, Jan. 18.
Board president Ned Smith will serve as interim director beginning April 1. The board is searching for a permanent replacement.
The center is a nonprofit science facility dedicated to research, rehabilitation and public education. It celebrates its 10th anniversary later this year.
According to Smith, Schrock’s resignation is unrelated to ongoing investigations by the FBI and U.S. Department of the Interior into the center’s purchase of a Seward business lot owned by former Sen. Ted Stevens’ aide Trevor McCabe and others in 2006.
The $558,000 purchase was made using part of a $1.6 million earmarked into the federal budget by Stevens.
Attempts to reach Schrock for comment by press time were unsuccessful.
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