Images

Black-capped Chickadee perched in a bush. This species of chickadee is important in Alaska.

Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.  Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea.

Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.  Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea. 

Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead at sunset in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.  Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea.

Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead and on sea ice in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.  Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea.

Seven Pine Siskins foraging for food on the ground in Juneau, Alaska.

Rob Wilson adding prepared genetic material to a gel in the Alaska Science Center Molecular Ecology Laboratory.

Lisa Pajot extracting DNA from samples (specifically she is precipitating the DNA out of solution with ethanol).

Black-capped Chickadee with a crossed beak on a branch.

Common Goldeneye on the water in Alaska.

Common Goldeneye on the water in Alaska. 

Bald Eagle on a broken tree on Juneau Beach, Juneau, Alaska.

Common Goldeneye taking off from water, Alaska

A Bald Eagle on Juneau Beach in Juneau, Alaska

Bald Eagle on a broken tree on shore of Juneau Beach, Juneau, Alaska.

Vegetation clings to a nearly soil free landscape, showing vivid autumn colors.

Sounding weight on the Copper River Delta, Alaska

Two polar bears swimming in the water in the Beaufort Sea

Drawing blood samples from an anesthetized polar bear

Normal Black-capped Chickadee

Aerial view of Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana. Sperry Glacier occupies a broad, shallow cirque situated just beneath and west of the Continental Divide in the Lewis Mountain Range of Glacier National Park, Montana. Due to its position on the Continental Divide the glacier is influenced by both maritime and continental air masses.