Since 1998, the Mendenhall Glacier group in the ENVS Program at UAS begun by Dr. Roman Motyka UAS has annually measured glacier mass balance, terminus position and pro-glacial...

We fly and ground check millions of acres of forest statewide and produce maps, reports and public information pieces for silviculturists, planners, managers, and the general...

A survey of dragonfly and damselfly species diversity and distribution in Alaska.

The Southeast Alaska Network of the National Park Service has numerous natural resource monitoring programs operating at this time. Programs span a broad range: from...

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Northern sea otters were extirpated from southeast Alaska in the late 1800's due to extensive hunting by fur traders. They were reintroduced successfully to the area from 1965...

This project characterizes the capacity of hepatic microsomes derived from southeastern Alaska forage fish to remove bromine from polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs),...

The typical response to a stressor in Vertebrates involves the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. It consists of a complicated series of hormonal cascade that results in...

In Southeast Alaska, rapidly receding glaciers and changes in rainfall have a major impact on freshwater discharge and will affect the transport of nutrients to coastal...

Commercial fishing revenues earned by residents of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, by type of fishery (source: Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission). “Salmon: UCI” refers...

Trends in harvest and effort in the commercial gill net (A), recreational hook-and-line (B), and personal use dip net and gill net (C) fisheries on the northern Kenai Peninsula....

Wildfire locations in the Kenai River watershed during 1943-2016 (data from AFS 2016). Symbol size represents fire area in acres (0.4047 ha). For more information, please see...

Number of permits issued (solid) and fished (dashed) for the two Upper Cook Inlet commercial salmon fisheries (drift gillnet and set gillnet), by residency of permit holder...

Landscape changes on the Kenai Peninsula: A) Cumulative loss of mass, meters of water equivalent, of Wolverine Glacier, a representative coastal glacier in the Kenai Mountains,...

Observed and projected changes in (A) air temperature and (B) precipitation at the city of Kenai and (C) observed changes in discharge in the Kenai River at town of Cooper...

Concentration of (A) fishery permits and (B) variability in fishery revenues for selected communities of the Kenai Peninsula Borough (source: Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry...

Salmon face risks from a rapidly changing climate, landscape change, and ocean acidification, but may also benefit from warming temperatures and glacial retreat under some...

Perspective rendering showing retreat of the Skilak Glacier, a major source of glacial runoff to the Kenai River. Colored lines indicate ice extent for 1952, 1978, and 2013...

Map of Kenai River watershed (dark shaded region) and focal subbasins for the EPSCoR Southcentral Test Case (blue shaded regions within the watershed). Glaciers within the...

Influences of glaciers and lakes on the hydrology and ecology of salmon-bearing rivers. Photo credits (L-R): Marli Miller, U. Oregon; John Schoen; National Weather Service. For...