Recent Research Highlights

Science in Action: Glacier Bay Research

Browse ongoing and recently completed research projects across various areas of study happening in the park. Interested in a specific article or topic not listed below, or archived research projects? See a complete listing of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve research articles.

 

Birds & Terrestrial Mammals

• Bat Acoustic Monitoring (2024)
• Developing Monitoring Protocols for Ground-nesting birds
• Development of a Monitoring Protocol for Kittlitz's Murrelets
• Distribution, Habitat Use, Activity, and Overwintering Strategies of Bats
• Effects of Food Limitation in a High Density Moose Population
• Glacous-winged Gull Monitoring and Egg Harvest
• Identifying Vulnerable Mountain Goat Populations
• Kittlitz's Murrelets Abundance
• Population Demographics and Sources of Mortality for Bears
• Responses of Wildlife to Low Levels of Tourism
• Resuming Tlingit Harvest of Gull Eggs
• Seasonal Predation Changes in Coastal Wolves
• Trophic Dynamics in the Gustavus-Glacier Bay Ecosystem

 

Fish & Invertebrates

• Forage Fish of Glacier Bay (2024)
• Accumulation of Mercury in Freshwater Fish
• Counting Bartlett River Salmon using Sonar
• Glacier Bay Tanner Crab Survey
• Using Satellite Transmitting Tags to Understand Pacific Halibut

 

Marine Mammals

• Contrasting trends of harbor seals and Stellar sea lions
• Encounters Between Cruise Ships and Humpback whales
• Estimating Age-specific Survival and Reproductive Rates of Stellar Sea Lions
• Helping Cruise Ships and Mariners Avoid Whales
• Humpback Whale Acoustics and Impacts from Vessel Noise
• Killer Whale Population Assessment
• Kinship and Local Structure of Humpbacks
• Measuring the Effects of Vessel Noise on seals
• Monitoring Harbor Seal Population Status
• Prey Pulses in a Marine Environment
• Sea Otters and Marine Communities
• Sea otter research in Southeast Alaska

 

Natural History & Culture

• Paleontological Inventory
• Clues to Human History

 

Physical Science

• Conducting a Soil Resource Inventory
• Development of Streams Following Glacial Recession
• Earthquake Monitoring Along the Fairweather Fault
• Further Study of Ocean Acidification
• Holocene and Historic Glacier Activity and Climate Change
• Measuring Stream Flow on the Alsek River
• Monitoring Water Quality of the Salmon River
• On the Trail of the Glaciers
• Plate Tectonics in Action
• Recreating the Pleistocene Coastline
• Stream Age and the Biochemistry of Post-Glacial Streams
• Stream Temperature Regimes
• Temporal Variations in Uplift
• Voices of Glacier Bay
• Underwater Acoustic Monitoring
• Weather and Climate Monitoring in Glacier Bay NP&P and Klondike Gold Rush NHP
• Will Dry Bay lose its river because of glacier retreat?

 

Plants & Vegetation

• Evaluation and Monitoring of Shore Pine Damage
• Lichen Inventory
• Rediscovering a Foundation of Ecology
• Yellow Cedar

 

Regional Research

• Birds of Alaska's National Parks
• Conserving pinnipeds in Pacific Ocean parks in response to climate change
• The Legacy of ANILCA

 

Wilderness and Recreation Management

• Campsite Impact
• Cumulative Effects of Installations in Wilderness