Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (GBNPP), like many pristine high-latitude areas, is currently at risk from atmospherically derived contaminants such as Hg. Although the...

The artificial culture of seaweeds has been of interest in Alaska since the 1980s. Originally the interest lay in the culture of the giant kelp (Macrocystis) as a substrate for...

A major unknown facing fisheries biologists and managers is how climate change will impact populations, species, and ecosystems. This research makes use of 40 years of data to...

Selection of the best method for preserving structural timbers in the marine environment requires an assessment of the relative toxicity of preservation methods. Creosote has...

We seek to understand the conditions under which groups of people can successfully manage their own rural, developing forest resources using behavioral experiments, survey data,...

Ecosystem management requires information on habitat condition across large scales; however, in Alaska comprehensive environmental surveys are often impractical and expensive to...

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...

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