On a windswept beach near Haines, Tim Ackerman walks down a hill with a pair of gloves, a knife, and a bottle of Dawn dish ...
However, perhaps the most enigmatic population of freshwater seals can be found a little closer to home in Alaska's Iliamna ...
The harbor seals of Alaska’s Iliamna Lake, which make up one of only five freshwater seal populations in the world, have long been a subject of fascination for their separateness from the seals that ...
UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine mammals species they’ve studied so far, and new results show passage ...
Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in the world. Alaska natives, ...
Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals have been difficult to study because of their remoteness. Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals Alaska’s Iliamna Lake ...
Our seals have travelled from as far as the deep seas off Alaska to reach the bay. Northern elephant seals are the largest true seal in the Northern Hemisphere. When males reach puberty at about 7 ...
two types of Arctic ice seals in Alaska. “This is fantastic news for these ice-dependent seals,” said Emily Jeffers, an attorney with the Center’s Oceans program. “We can’t save them without ...