Tour boats are one of the most popular ways to explore Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, but noise from those vessels can disturb how sea mammals communicate.
The latest video in the “Outside Science (inside parks)” series follows college students studying how the human-caused noise impacts whales, seals, and other marine mammals.
Every month in 2016, the “Outside Science (inside parks)” video series will showcase ways “the next generation is getting involved in park science.” This is the eighth episode released by the National Park Service and produced by students from Colorado State University. Previous videos chronicle:
- A BioBlitz at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
- Collecting dragonflies to study mercury levels at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park
- Red tides at Cape Cod National Seashore
- Baby turtles at Gulf Islands National Seashore
- A backcountry hiking and photography program at Denali National Park and Preserve
- Counting cacti at Saguaro National Park
- Vegetation mapping at Everglades National Park
- Cave ecology and geology at Buffalo National River
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