Current Projects

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Marine Invertebrates at UAMN

The Aquatics collection includes important holdings of North Pacific invertebrates, which have been used by Nora Foster to produce summaries of the invertebrate diversity of Prince William Sound. We worked with faculty at the College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences at UAF to catalog and digitize information associated with the specimens.

 

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UAF Ichthyology lab

The UAMN Fish collection serves as the foundation for ongoing research into the biological diversity of fishes in Alaska and worldwide. An overview of the studies currently being advanced by students associated with the collection can be found in the web pages of the UAF Ichthyology lab.

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NOAA, Auke Bay Laboratories Accession

We are now home to a large collection of fishes and marine invertebrates developed by and previously housed at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay labs in Juneau. This collection includes about 8000 lots of m arine invertebrates and 6000 lots of fishes, effectively doubling the size of the collection.