Updates from the Strawberry Island Research Team

July 14, 2016 Posted by: Emma Johnson

Researchers chat (and set up a rain shelter!) during a brief break between 

whale surveys on Strawberry Island. NPS photo Kaytie Boomer

 

After three weeks on Strawberry Island, the bio-acoustics research team came into Gustavus to shower, wash clothes, resupply, and reconnect, including updating their blogs. Head on over to discover what it's like to do research on a remote, wild island in Glacier Bay National Park. 

 

Michele's blog 
 

Leanna's blog

 

Leanna and Michele are helping our education team with an outreach video. While filming, we gathered a lot of good material. If you need refresher in telling apart individual humpbacks and harbor seals, watch this brief video.