Harbor Seal Monitoring in Southern Kenai Peninsula Fjords, Alaska: 1979 - 2007

• Main Authors: Anne Hoover-Miller, Caroline Jezierski, Shannon Atkinson
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gulf of Alaska Data Portal
• Subjects: oil spill; disturbance; evostc; exxon valdez; Alaska; exxon valdez oil spill trustee council; harbor seal; glacial ice; monitoring; phoca vitulina; pelagic; Phoca vitulina; vitulina; Atkinson; Kayak; Pedersen; Pedersen Lake; glacier; glaciers; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/df35d.275.10

Abstract: Harbor seals in Aialik Bay, a tidewater glacial habitat on the Kenai Peninsula, have been monitored since 1979 by field observations and remotely controlled video cameras. From 1980-2002 mean numbers of pups, adjusted for environmental conditions, declined 88% from 148 to 18 pups and remai...