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Balancing Tour Boats And Underwater Communication At Glacier Bay National Park

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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:

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